unable to disable selinux

[Gerry Tool]

Rich Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry if this is covered somewhere else, I haven't been able to find the 
> answer in the archives.
> 
> I've just upgraded from RH8.0 to FC2 test3 and I'm trying to disable 
> selinux until I get other problems sorted out.  I've tried passing 
> selinux=0 on the kernel line in grub, and I've also tried creating a 
> file /etc/sysconfig/selinux with the contents SELINUX=disabled.
> 
> Either way, whenever I issue a command like:
> rpm -V x11-org
> 
> I see the error message:
> /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts: No such file or directory
> 
> so I think selinux is enabled.  /usr/bin/selinuxenabled exits with a 
> return value of 1.
> 
> What do I need to do to really disable selinux?  I'm running kernel 
> 2.6.5-1.327.
> 
> thanks,
> Rich
> 
> 
try updating to the latest kernel (2.6.5-1.351 I believe.)

Gerry