From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20071020 CentOS/1.5.0.12-6.el5.centos Firefox/1.5.0.12 pango-text Description of problem: When I start up snmpd using the default snmpd.conf file provieded with RHE 5.0 (CentOS 5.0) I get the following SElinux error in /var/log/messages: Oct 28 23:02:39 harker setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/snmpd (snmpd_t) "search" access to mail (etc_mail_t). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 37a5928a-d008-466d-8c15-87f75b59a2f9 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-2.4.6-30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start snmpd: service start snmpd 2. Look a messages log file: tail /var/log/messages Actual Results: Not sure yet Expected Results: Additional info: I think this is an oversight in the SElinux policy for snmpd that should be corrected in the next maintenance relase
Try the U1 policy http://people.redhat.com/~dwalsh/SELinux/RHEL5/noarch/