/etc/default in Fedora

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/06/2012 04:21 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 03:20 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> I wanted to add "selinux=0" to the kernel command line on F17. I 
>> checked /etc/sysconfig/, /etc/grub.d/, next I started to read 
>> /etc/grub.d/10_linux (this new grub2 is so user friendly..) and I 
>> found ${GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX}. So I grepped /etc for
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX. I found file: /etc/default/grub
> 
>> Why /etc/default dir is used instead of /etc/sysconfig? To be
>> honest - it's not really user friendly from long time RH Linux user
>> POV.
> 
> Just disable SELinux in /etc/selinux/config.

There are subtle differences with doing that apparently.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-02/msg00176.html

cheers,
Pádraig.