selinux not enabled

[Daniel J Walsh]

Sjoerd Mullender wrote:

>I'm trying to enable SELinux on my FC3 system and I followed the manual
>instructions in the FAQ* (I don't want to use
>system-config-securitylevel since it overwrites my iptables setup):
>/etc/selinux/config contains SELINUX=permissive and SELINUXTYPE=targeted;
>I have touched /.autorelabel;
>I have rebooted (several times, not all of them related to this issue);
>and when the system was rebooting, there was no noticeable delay while
>the files were being relabeled and /.autorelabel still exists.  Also:
># sestatus -v
>SELinux status:         disabled
>
>In /var/log/messages and in the dmesg output, I don't see anything about
>SELinux being disabled.  I do see the following lines (the selinux=1 was
>my latest attempt--it didn't change anything):
>
># dmesg | grep -i selinux
>Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off acpi=on selinux=1
>SELinux:  Initializing.
>SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
>selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
>SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>*) http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/index.html#id2825232
>
>  
>
 From reading all the replies it sounds like either you don't have 
selinux-policy-targeted installed.
Or init is having a hard time finding your policy file.  It is looking 
for /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/policy/policy.18 (or 19)

Dan

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