At 1:09 PM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:27:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > >> At 12:36 AM -0400 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >>>On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:43:30 -0700, Rashan Jibowu wrote: >> ... >>>> Can someone please help? How can I get the programs >>>> under "System Settings" to work again? >>>> >>> >>>I've had similar problems. After fresh installation I think I was able to >>>configure everything from the gui config tools, then I noticed >>>system-config-network won't write out the files properly, nor would >>>system-config-securitylevel. Probably others too. Luckily I've been using >>>RedHat since 5.0, and I can do all that at the prompt, but I feel sorry >>>for the new people. ... >> I would hazard a guess that many such issues stem from SELinux. Have you >> tried booting with kernel parameter "enforcing=0", and does that help >> either of you? ... >Excellent! All grief is gone. For now. > >I don't understand very well what happened, I had selinux on permissive >(or whatever most lax security policy it's called). I thought that was >equivalent to not having selinux at all. Probably my ignorance. I would suggest making sure that SELinux is up to date, and then touching /.autorelabel and rebooting (as others have suggested for SELinux problems) and seeing if that allows SELinux to work properly. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
