CentOS - Oct 2008 - problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied

Hi folks,

I have installed postgrey from the rpmforge repo, but it does not work well 
with postfix from CentOS 5.2: I always get the error:

warning: connect to postgrey/socket: Permission denied
problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied

But the permissions on the socket seem okay (postfix could write to it):
srw-rw-rw- 1 postgrey postgrey        0  4. Okt 14:48 socket

I also tried "restorecon -R /var/spool/postfix/postgrey", but that did
not
change anything, either.

Googling does not show anything recent and helpful. Any hint or help is 
appreciated.

Dirk

Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have installed postgrey from the rpmforge repo, but it does not work 
> well with postfix from CentOS 5.2: I always get the error:
> 
> warning: connect to postgrey/socket: Permission denied
> problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied
> 
> But the permissions on the socket seem okay (postfix could write to it):
> srw-rw-rw- 1 postgrey postgrey        0  4. Okt 14:48 socket
> 
> I also tried "restorecon -R /var/spool/postfix/postgrey", but
that did
> not change anything, either.
> 
> Googling does not show anything recent and helpful. Any hint or help is 
> appreciated.
> 
> Dirk
> 
Hi Dirk,

You're correct in your assumption that this is an SELinux issue. You 
need to write a custom policy to allow connection and writing to the socket.

How to do this is covered in the SELinux Wiki guide here:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux#head-faa96b3fdd922004cdb988c1989e56191c257c01

and luckily for you, the example used is for postgrey/postfix so you can 
use the example provided.

Hope that helps.

Dirk H. Schulz wrote on Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:28:06 +0200:
> warning: connect to postgrey/socket: Permission denied
> problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied
SELinux enabled?

Kai

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