permission problems with script run via crondargs -m

A little background first.

This is for Fedora 32 workstation which does not come with a default MTA 
and thus there is a slight challenge (ahem) getting CRON's output into 
the local mailstore.  I don't want to install an MTA (leave why for 
Fedora users list discuss) and "procmail -f cron" leaves out a DATE 
header.  So I wrote my own little script that I put in /usr/local/mycron 
that takes the output from cron and appends the proper content to 
/var/spool/mail/$USER.

Works fine for my personal crontab, but has selinux problems for 
logwatch running as root (and probably any other cron task running as root).

So I first got told by selinux troubleshooting that I needed:

ausearch -c 'mycron' --raw | audit2allow -M my-mycron
semodule -X 300 -i my-mycron.pp

Which I did.  Then after this night's run of logwatch, I see that I have 
the selinux troubleshoot icon, but when I look, it is empty? So I grep 
messages for logwatch, then grep the time it was running and found the 
following:

May 11 03:43:19 lx140e setroubleshoot[121345]: SELinux is preventing 
mycron from add_name
access on the directory root. For complete SELinux messages run: sealert 
-l 8eb93a73-c7ff-
42ec-bee1-594d77540808
May 11 03:43:19 lx140e python3[121345]: SELinux is preventing mycron 
from add_name access
on the directory root.#012#012*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) 
suggests   ********
******************#012#012If you believe that mycron should be allowed 
add_name access on
the root directory by default.#012Then you should report this as a 
bug.#012You can generat
e a local policy module to allow this access.#012Do#012allow this access 
for now by execut
ing:#012# ausearch -c 'mycron' --raw | audit2allow -M my-mycron#012# 
semodule -X 300 -i my
-mycron.pp#012
May 11 03:43:23 lx140e systemd[1]: 
dbus-:[email protected]:
  Succeeded.

So it looks like now I am told to run:

ausearch -c 'mycron' --raw | audit2allow -M my-mycron
semodule -X 300 -i my-mycron.pp

Wait, that is the same I ran earlier?  And why did I have to grep 
messages to find these?

Now I did update mycron in between.  Will I have to run this every time 
I update mycron?  How do I make it permanent?  Also right now there is 
no /var/spool/mail/root mbox file.

thanks
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