SELinux

[Patrick Dupre]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

> On 29/08/10 18:42, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Patrick Dupre wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> With fedora 13, when I use Math:GSL, I get an error message:
>>>>>    Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so' for
>>>>>    module
>>>>> Math::GSL::Errno: /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/Math/GSL/Errno/Errno.so:
>>>>> cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied at
>>>>> /usr/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 200.
>>>>>
>>>>> if I do not switch SELinux to permissive !!
>>>>
>>>> Seems something you installed yourself that's running afoul of selinux,
>>>> fedora doesn't install anything into /usr/local/... by default.
>>>>
>>> Of course, I NEED Math:GSL !!!!
>>
>> OK, so... what's your point?  Your original post seemed to be blaming
>> selinux here, for something that's not testable (ie, supporting/testing
>> something not included in fedora).
>
> I would advise Patrick to disable Selinux. I've made that decision long ago
> because it gives me more problems when enabled that I can possibly solve. IMHO
> the user interface is so bad that selinux is unuseable for an ordinary enduser.
>
So what is the purpose of SELinux ?
>

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