Description of problem: The daily cron job ran. It tried to send email to root as seen in this excerpt from /var/log/cron: Jan 2 20:11:46 localhost anacron[8344]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (mailing output) Jan 2 20:11:46 localhost anacron[8344]: Tried to mail output of job `cron.daily', but mailer process (/usr/sbin/sendmail) exited with status 1 Jan 2 20:11:46 localhost anacron[8344]: Normal exit (1 job run) I don't know why ssmtp was trying to access /root. SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/ssmtp from 'write' accesses on the directory /root. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that ssmtp should be allowed write access on the root directory by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep sendmail /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:logwatch_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 Target Objects /root [ dir ] Source sendmail Source Path /usr/sbin/ssmtp Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages ssmtp-2.64-9.fc20.x86_64 Target RPM Packages filesystem-3.2-19.fc20.x86_64 Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-106.fc20.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 3.12.5-302.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Dec 17 20:42:32 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2014-01-02 20:10:06 MST Last Seen 2014-01-02 20:10:06 MST Local ID fc2f9c8c-f3bf-4944-8340-d68c7bca19cc Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1388718606.944:576): avc: denied { write } for pid=8642 comm="sendmail" name="root" dev="dm-0" ino=2883585 scontext=system_u:system_r:logwatch_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1388718606.944:576): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=2587b60 a1=441 a2=1b6 a3=2 items=0 ppid=8555 pid=8642 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=12 sgid=12 fsgid=12 ses=2 tty=(none) comm=sendmail exe=/usr/sbin/ssmtp subj=system_u:system_r:logwatch_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Hash: sendmail,logwatch_mail_t,admin_home_t,dir,write Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.1.10 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 3.12.5-302.fc20.x86_64 type: libreport
e09391bd975a52418316d78c8be1484782842025 fixes this in git.
selinux-policy-3.12.1-116.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.12.1-116.fc20
Package selinux-policy-3.12.1-116.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.12.1-116.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-0806/selinux-policy-3.12.1-116.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
selinux-policy-3.12.1-116.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.