Re: [VuFind-General] Sending email with SElinux enforcing

[Bernhardt, R. (CIV) <rgb...@np...>]

I forgot to mention, this appears to only apply to older versions of Fedora Core, and does apply to RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6. I believe your comment in the current Fedora installation docs remains true, that newer versions of Fedora Core have this policy in place automatically.

Thanks,

Russ


From: Demian Katz [mailto:dem...@vi...]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 10:34 AM
To: Bernhardt, Russell (CIV); vuf...@li...
Subject: RE: Sending email with SElinux enforcing

Thanks for sharing this information!  I have updated the Fedora install documentation to reflect it.

- Demian

From: Bernhardt, Russell (CIV) [mailto:rgb...@np...]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 1:15 PM
To: vuf...@li...
Subject: [VuFind-General] Sending email with SElinux enforcing

I don't know if this has been discussed before, but we recently hit a cryptic snag when none of the VuFind email capability would work, but manually sending emails at the terminal did work.

The error message returned in VuFind was along the lines of "Unable to connect socket", "permission denied".

The issue is that by default Apache is not allowed to send email with SElinux active. The policy to enable is (as root):

setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail=1

Source:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207901

Russ Bernhardt
Systems Analyst
Library Information Systems
Dudley Knox Library
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA