On 10/19/07, Chris G <cl@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 02:21:01PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Chris G wrote: > > > > > But it is, it runs and outputs messages in my logs which say that it > > > has stoppped some things which would otherwise have happened (apache > > > access to some files if I remember). > > > > > > OK, this isn't actually 'running' it but from a users point of view > > > it's no different. If, when asked if I want X installed I say no and > > > then later I see in my logs 'X has done something', what else am I to > > > conclude. > > > > Just to be clear: > > Do you have "SELINUX=disabled" in /etc/selinux/conf > > and you still get SELinux messages from apache? > > > During the Fedora 7 installation when it asked whether I wanted > SELinux I said no. Since then I have not thought further about it > really until I noticed some SELinux messages in /var/log/messages. > > I don't even *have* a /etc/selinux/conf, presumably saying 'no' to > installation is the reason for this. > > Ah, no, the file is /etc/selinux/config. No, I don't have > "SELINUX=disabled" in it, it has:- > > SELINUX=permissive > SELINUXTYPE=targeted > SETLOCALDEFS=0 > > OK, so I need to change to "SELINUX=disabled" to turn it off > completely, but why wasn't it set that way when I said 'no' during > installation? So it wasn't disabled. Hence the errors. Unless you have some very weird problem, disabling SELinux on install disabled SELinux unless you re-enable it. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
