Cups problem

[Timothy Murphy]

Tim wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 08:35 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>> Changed SElinux to permissive and believe or not but I can print
>> anything and my sound is back after losing it during the last
>> upgrade, SElinux-enforcing seems to be very restrictive.
> 
> Hmm, if your printing, and any other problems, are down to SELinux
> stopping them from doing their thing, there ought to be SELinux logs
> about it.
> 
> If you want to use SELinux, then you'd want to resolve them.  SELinux in
> permissive mode does nothing to protect you, it's virtually an
> allow-anyway-and-log test mode.  If you don't want to use SELinux, you
> may as well completely disable it.

I completely disagree.
The OP seems to me to have quite enough problems
without worrying about SELinux.

If you have a system that is working perfectly, try SELinux.
Until then, turn it off.