Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail access to a leaked /opt/lampp/logs/error_log file descriptor. Detailed Description: [sendmail has a permissive type (sendmail_t). This access was not denied.] SELinux denied access requested by the sendmail command. It looks like this is either a leaked descriptor or sendmail output was redirected to a file it is not allowed to access. Leaks usually can be ignored since SELinux is just closing the leak and reporting the error. The application does not use the descriptor, so it will run properly. If this is a redirection, you will not get output in the /opt/lampp/logs/error_log. You should generate a bugzilla on selinux-policy, and it will get routed to the appropriate package. You can safely ignore this avc. Allowing Access: You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 Target Context system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 Target Objects /opt/lampp/logs/error_log [ file ] Source sendmail Source Path /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages sendmail-8.14.4-4.fc13 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.7.19-41.fc13 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name leaks Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 2.6.33.6-147.2.4.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Jul 23 17:21:06 UTC 2010 i686 i686 Alert Count 1 First Seen Wed 11 Aug 2010 01:25:55 AM IST Last Seen Wed 11 Aug 2010 01:25:55 AM IST Local ID 8e629946-8226-4e56-a7a0-bb0fc9f81e97 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=(removed) type=AVC msg=audit(1281470155.189:21822): avc: denied { append } for pid=3515 comm="sendmail" path="/opt/lampp/logs/error_log" dev=sda5 ino=1440893 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file node=(removed) type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1281470155.189:21822): arch=40000003 syscall=11 success=yes exit=0 a0=94903a8 a1=9490480 a2=948f8b8 a3=9490480 items=0 ppid=1546 pid=3515 auid=4294967295 uid=99 gid=99 euid=99 suid=99 fsuid=99 egid=482 sgid=482 fsgid=482 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="sendmail" exe="/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail" subj=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 key=(null) Hash String generated from leaks,sendmail,sendmail_t,usr_t,file,append audit2allow suggests: #============= sendmail_t ============== allow sendmail_t usr_t:file append;
Looks like lampp tool is leaking a file descriptor. Try to execute chcon -t var_log_t /opt/lampp/logs/error_log Should fix.
You want to run # semanage fcontext -a -t var_log_t '/opt/lampp/logs(/.*)?' To make this change permanent.