Re: Determining if SELinux is installed

[Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency


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