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Our CUPS test suite uses sendmail for verification of email notifications - the test started to fail on RHEL 9.4.0. What were you trying to do that didn't work? Start sendmail service Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen: selinux-policy-38.1.28-1.el9.noarch How reproducible: Always when SELinux is turned on Steps to reproduce '# dnf -y install sendmail && systemctl start sendmail' Expected results Started sendmail service Actual results # systemctl start sendmail Job for sendmail.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status sendmail.service" and "journalctl -xeu sendmail.service" for details. # systemctl status sendmail × sendmail.service - Sendmail Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service; disabled; preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Thu 2023-12-21 06:50:26 EST; 5min ago Process: 14588 ExecStartPre=/etc/mail/make (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 14590 ExecStartPre=/etc/mail/make aliases (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 14598 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd $SENDMAIL_OPTS $SENDMAIL_OPTARG (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 66ms Dec 21 06:48:56 vm-10-0-185-227.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Starting Sendmail Mail Transport Agent... Dec 21 06:48:56 vm-10-0-185-227.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com systemd[1]: sendmail.service: Can't open PID file /run/sendmail.pid (yet?) after start: Operation not permitted Dec 21 06:48:56 vm-10-0-185-227.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com sendmail[14618]: starting daemon (8.16.1): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00 Dec 21 06:48:56 vm-10-0-185-227.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com sendmail[14618]: unable to write pid to /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied Dec 21 06:50:26 vm-10-0-185-227.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com systemd[1]: sendmail.service: start operation timed out. Terminating. Dec 21 06:50:26 vm-10-0-185-227.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com systemd[1]: sendmail.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Dec 21 06:50:26 vm-10-0-185-227.hosted.upshift.rdu2.redhat.com systemd[1]: Failed to start Sendmail Mail Transport Agent. # ausearch -m AVC,USER_AVC -ts recent ---- time->Thu Dec 21 06:48:56 2023 type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1703159336.866:323): proctitle=2F7573722F7362696E2F73656E646D61696C002D6264002D713168 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1703159336.866:323): arch=c000003e syscall=257 success=no exit=-13 a0=ffffff9c a1=7ffc20e23a20 a2=c1 a3=180 items=0 ppid=1 pid=14618 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=51 sgid=51 fsgid=51 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="sendmail" exe="/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail" subj=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC msg=audit(1703159336.866:323): avc: denied { create } for pid=14618 comm="sendmail" name="sendmail.pid" scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:sendmail_var_run_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0 Additional notes: I suspect the fix for https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-15175 caused this - it is only bug with connection to sendmail, but I was not able to verify the idea because the MR fixing it is a rebase.

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