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Libyano
Asked: 2009-10-14 00:24:28 +0800 CST

Disabling SeLinux

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I'm not sure if I remember when I installed red hat 5 on my server. So how I can be sure whether selinux is disabled or not?

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  1. Best Answer

    Simply try 

    grep -i selinux /var/log/dmesg

    Note:
    The clean way to determine if selinux is enabled or not would be to use the selinuxenabled tool from libselinux-utils package. The issue is that your kernel could have selinux compiled and enforced, but (for various uncommon reasons) not have selinux-utils installed.
    This is a quite uncommon situation, but it resambles to yours :)

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  2. See Administrator Control of SELinux in the SELinux manual:

    selinuxenabled;; echo $?

    will display 0 if SELinux is enabled and -256 if it is disabled.

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  3. The standard interactive tool on RHEL is getenforce. It outputs a message telling the user which mode SELinux is in: enforcing, permissive or disabled.

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  4. In Red Hat systems, you could edit /etc/selinux/config and set:

    SELINUX=disabled

    Reboot and you are golden.

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