Bug 129920

Summary: Please don't call "/usr/bin/python" from /etc/cron.d/mailman
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Russell Coker <russell>
Component: mailmanAssignee: John Dennis <jdennis>
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Description Russell Coker 2004-08-14 08:51:41 UTC 
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Description of problem:
In SE Linux the program that is executed determines the domain that the program is run in.

Running "/usr/bin/python -S /var/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip" from /etc/cron.d/mailman causes the cron job to run in domain sysadm_crond_t, while running it as "/var/mailman/cron/nightly_gzip" (with the first line of the script being "#!/usr/bin/python -S") causes it to run in domain mailman_queue_t which is the desired result (*).

This change will not have any affect for people who don't use SE Linux and will do a lot of good for SE Linux users.

(*)  Please note that there are other problems with SE Linux and mailman, this change is not all that's required to make it work - but it is the only change that's required in the mailman package.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
examine /etc/cron.d/mailman

Additional info:
Comment 1 John Dennis 2004-08-31 20:17:03 UTC 
Thank you for your help and support of mailman in Red Hat. I have
modified the rpm as per your suggestions and the results appear in
mailman-2.1.5-12 which is currently building for rawhide and inclusion
in FC3 and RHEL4.