SELinux Attack!

[Karl Larsen]

Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 12/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>   
>> The Attack occurred 2 days AFTER I turned SELinux from off to passive
>> mode. The computer is in almost unusable shape.
>>
>>     If you want to see anything let me know. I will send it. I am going
>> to see what dmesg has to say.
>>     
>
> What precisely is the problem? All you have conveyed so far is:
>
> a) You're getting the ip6tables error message on boot indicating that
> protocol 51 is unmatched (this is nothing serious).
>
> b) Cups failed to start
>
> c) Thunderbird took a long time to load.
>
> And for some reason, you think SElinux is at the heart of the
> troubles, but you haven't yet explained what made you reach that
> conclusion. You need to be much more precise in describing your
> problem if you want people to help you.
>
> Is the problem simply that your machine is exhibiting a high load and
> so is very slow?
>
>   
Yes the ONLY problem is that a F7 that was working just fine all by 
itself found it can not locate cups. After 10 minutes it does find cups 
but then it can't find sendmail for around 5 minutes. Then it comes up 
very slow and when clear up into xwindows it still doesn't all work. 
When it got to a point I could operate the SELinux control panels I 
tried to turn SELinux off. To see what happens. Well just now looking at 
dmesg the dam SELinux is not turned off! So what is the best way to make 
sure this thing is turned off?


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
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