Bug 191063 - selinux consideration in mailman installation instructions
Summary: selinux consideration in mailman installation instructions
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Retired
Component: docs-requests
Version: devel
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Wade
QA Contact: Tommy Reynolds
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-05-08 16:44 UTC by Michael McAndrew
Modified: 2009-07-07 04:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-09 21:08:32 UTC
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Description Michael McAndrew 2006-05-08 16:44:45 UTC
Hi there,

I hope this is the right place to file this request to edit the file:
/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.1.7/INSTALL.REDHAT

I was following these instructions to  configure mailman.  On typing many of the
commands, I was presented with errors like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "bin/genaliases", line 116, in ?
   main()
 File "bin/genaliases", line 102, in main
   MTA.create(None, nolock=True, quiet=quiet)
 File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 232, in create
   _update_maps()
 File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MTA/Postfix.py", line 53, in _update_maps
   raise RuntimeError, msg % (acmd, status, errstr)
RuntimeError: command failed: /usr/sbin/postalias /etc/mailman/aliases
(status: 1, Operation not permitted).

I was running in SELinux Enforcing mode.  It turns out that these problems don't
happen if you are in Permissive mode.

Is it worth pointing this out in that peice of documentation?  I think it would
help.

Thanks,
Michael

Comment 1 John Villalovos 2007-05-23 05:15:49 UTC
This might be a duplicate of #234773

Comment 2 John Villalovos 2007-05-23 05:55:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> This might be a duplicate of #234773

I meant to say, this seems like a duplicate of Bug 234773

Comment 3 Karsten Wade 2007-05-24 10:01:03 UTC
Not really a duplicate, per se, although it does appear that the errors
encountered were because of the lack of appropriate policy.

The document at /usr/share/doc/mailman* is owned by the mailman package.  So, at
the least, this bug report would start there.  However, it might really be
considered to be a bug in the upstream Mailman content.

If you feel this report is still appropriate for the mailman package, let's
move/reassign the bug over there.  If it is no longer a problem and/or the
content needs to be changed upstream in Mailman, we'll close this NOTABUG.

Comment 4 eric 2009-06-09 21:08:32 UTC
This does not appear to be a documentation issue.

Comment 5 eric 2009-07-07 04:09:39 UTC
Ticket moved to allow products to be removed from BZ.


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