do I need SELinux?

[Daniel J Walsh]

Steven Stern wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:37:21 -0500, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>So I would hope that people will work with it and not just turn it off 
>>as soon as they have a problem
>>with the system.
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>I haven't had any problems and assume it's working fine on my system.  But how
>do I know?  Will something show up in logwatch if there's something to worry
>about?  What syslog message prefix indicates a SELINUX targeted policy
>message?
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>(Yes, this is probably in the FAQ, so if you can point me to the right one,
>I'll go off quiely and read it.)
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You might see some change in behavior of applications and usually AVC 
messages in /var/log/messages.

For the most part you probably will see nothing.

sestatus shows you whether it is running or not.