[Dovecot] selinux

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 13:41 +1200, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
> On 18/04/2006 12:20 p.m., Alfred Tuinman wrote:
> > Probably a very know problem but I fail to find a solution.
> > 
> > selinux enforced makes the /etc/init.d/dovecot start command fail
> > 
> > If I change it to permiscious mode then it works.
> > 
> > Any idea how to solve this?
> > 
> > I use FC5 with dovecot-1.0-0.beta2.7
> 
> Start by logging a bug in the Fedora Core tracking system at 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if one hasn't been filed for that matter already.
> 
> I know that's not going to fix your immediate problem, but it means that it is 
> very likely to be fixed upstream and will in turn then fixed in the next update 
> to selinux for FC5.  Until then use the workaround outlined by another poster - 
> "service dovecot start".
> 
> There's no reason why selinux can't be made to work with dovecot....it perhaps 
> just needs some minor debugging and bug reporting ;-)

It *does* normally work. And "service dovecot start" isn't a workaround,
it's the proper mechanism for starting services.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://fedora.ivazquez.net/

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