Re: Determining if SELinux is installed

[Scott Cain <cain@cshl.org>]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:33 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 11:18, Scott Cain wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Is there a programmatic way to determine if SELinux is installed and
> > enabled?  I would like to know so that I can let the installer I've
> > written take appropriate action if it detects that it is there.
> 
> The libselinux function is is_selinux_enabled(3).
> There is also a libselinux utility called selinuxenabled(1) that can be
> used in a conditional, e.g. if selinuxenabled; then echo Yes; fi.
> Finally, you can also manually check for presence of selinuxfs in
> /proc/filesystems.

Thanks.  I guess it will have to be the last option, since the installer
is in perl, so I can't (directly) use is_selinux_enabled, and
since /usr/sbin isn't typically in a user's path, I can't count on that
either.  So `grep selinuxfs /proc/filesystems` it is!

Thanks,
Scott

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Scott Cain, Ph. D.                                         cain@cshl.org
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory


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