sestatus will show the current status. if enforcing then something may not be functioning as designed. if permissive then it will report it is blocking when it is not, and if you set it enforcing then something would probably break. if you set it permissive at one time then it will stay set permissive. On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 4:56 PM home user <mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/13/21 2:24 PM, Roger Heflin wrote: > > Are you running permissive or enforcing? > > > if permissive then it does not block anything, but says it is blocking > > > > if enforcing it is blocking something, though it may be a > > pointless/useless interface feature of some sort that does not matter, > > and does not really affect functionality. > > > > And it might be some sort of sub process that is failing to do > > something that may or may not matter. > > When I first installed this system 8 years ago, SELinux was there by > default. My knowledge of it is very high level and superficial. I > don't recall ever setting anything either of those 2 ways; I'm running > whatever the default is. I don't know the answer to your question, nor > do I know how to find out. > > I do need to find a better way to reproduce the problem and test fixes > (like the restorecon command you suggested). Currently, it seems I get > the problem only the first 1 or 2 times per login, per boot, or per day > (I haven't yet figured out which). I also want to figure out if the > problem is limited to caja, or if "files" also has the problem. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
