disabling selinux entirely

[Stephen Smalley]

On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:23 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
> I thought that by setting selinux to "disabled" in the config file, I 
> wouldn't be bothered by it's alerts any more. How do I stop SELinux from 
> running, period? I don't want any alerts from SELinux regarding stuff I'm 
> trying to install.

SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config should have done the trick for
you.  Can you provide the output of:
$ cat /etc/selinux/config
$ dmesg | grep SELinux:

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency