yum remove selinux*

[Boris Epstein]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tommy Pham wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I don't want/use selinux.  Any reason I shouldn't just do:
> >>
> >> yum remove selinux* ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> > IIRC, selinux is part of the kernel.  Hence when you make any changes
> > to/from SELINUX=disabled in the /etc/selinux/config, you have to
> > reboot.
>
> Yes, but my question is just whether it is safe to yum remove selinux*?  It
> seems rather widespread, and I just wanted to be sure it won't cause other
> problems if I remove it.
>
>
It is precisely for that reason - that it is so widespread - that I
personally would rather not remove it. What prompted you to start
contemplating that?

Boris.
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