selinux is a pain

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Sep 22 12:34:38 UTC 2011


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On 09/21/2011 08:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> On 09/21/2011 06:09 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> I wonder if these very high percentages are not due to the fact
>>> that the information is collected soon after CentOS is
>>> installed, when SELinux is enabled by default?
>> 
>> Smolt has a cron job that keeps the profiles updated.  So if you
>> disable SELinux later,  it will be reflected on the stats
> 
> I'm not sure why, but I see I am running /etc/cron.d/smolt on one
> CentOS-5.6 server, but not on a second CentOS-6.0 server. Does it
> depend on how one installs CentOS?
> 
> In any case, this isn't relevant to my main point, which was a
> request to SELinux developers to try to give simple advice with
> their warnings.
> 
Have you looked at the latest setroubleshoot that is in Fedora and
will be in RHEL 6.2?

http://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/RHEL6
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