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On 11/01/2013 06:55 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
On 11/01/2013 06:36 PM, Wes James wrote:
I have installed emacs with yum and now I'm trying to create a .emacs file and put some commands in it, but I can't type anything in the emacs buffer. It says the buffer is read-only. I exited emacs and did touch .emacs and I get a message that it can't do that on a read-only file system. I googled around to see why this might be, but I can't see any links on this. Any tips why this might be doing this? I've heard that centos is strict on changes, but I don't know the extent it restricts changes. I followed a page where I did echo 0 >/selinux/enforce . But this is only good until reboot. But shouldn't I be now able to make changes in ~*
Thanks,
-wes
As you found, SELinux was not at fault,
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
Is immediate, it will put the machine into permissive mode. setenforce 0, is a better command to do this.
On reboot SELinux would be back to the original state. If you want to alter the default state of SELinux, you do this through /etc/selinux/config.