[CentOS] can't enable selinux CentOS 6.5

Tue Dec 30 08:18:47 UTC 2014
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

What possible reason could they have for that?

On 30/12/14 02:17 AM, Laurent Dumont wrote:
> By any change, is it a VPS? I know that my CloudAtCost (very cheap but
> extremely unreliable provider) prevents you from using SeLinux on their
> Centos image.
>
> On 12/29/2014 9:58 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>>   For some reason I can't seem to enable SELinux on this one host.
>>
>>   Here's my SELinux config file:
>>
>> [root at beta-new:~] #cat /etc/sysconfig/selinux
>>
>> # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
>> # SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
>> #     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
>> #     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
>> #     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
>> SELINUX=enforcing
>> # SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
>> #     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
>> #     mls - Multi Level Security protection.
>> SELINUXTYPE=targeted
>>
>>
>> And when I check if it's enabled this is what I get:
>>
>> [root at beta-new:~] #getenforce
>> Disabled
>>
>> But when I go to set SELinux to enabled, even with the config file set as
>> you see it above, I get this result:
>>
>> [root at beta-new:~] #setenforce 1
>> setenforce: SELinux is disabled
>>
>> And nothing I can do enables it on this host. So how, can I solve this
>> problem? I would definitely appreciate any advice you may have.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tim
>>
>
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