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Re: SELinux and CRS

Niall Litchfield

2007-07-30

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Hi Bill, my take which may resonate with you, is to treat it like
Windows Firewall - either disable- or learn. Its there as a security
measure - you may not need it.

On 30/07/07, William Wagman <wjwagman@(protected):
> David,
>
> Thank you for the reply. I was not aware of SELinux until today.
> Googling has returned a number of sources indicating that when
> installing various pieces of Oracle, mostly OCFS but I haven't found
> anything specific to CRS, require SELinux be disabled. I haven't been
> able to find anything specific though, everyone just says disable it.
> Searching for SELinux in the oracle docs on technet returns nothing. Can
> you point me to any specific documentation about this?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bill Wagman
> Univ. of California at Davis
> IET Campus Data Center
> wjwagman@(protected)
> (530) 754-6208
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: David Sharples [mailto:davidsharples@(protected)]
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 10:08 AM
> To: William Wagman
> Cc: freelists
> Subject: Re: SELinux and CRS
>
>
> SELinux has to be disabled for oracle to install
>
>
> On 30/07/07, William Wagman <wjwagman@(protected):
>
>  Greetings,
>  
>  "I saw that we have SELinux configured, I still researching
> about how
>  SELinux should work with CRS, but in the meantime I'd like to
> ask ct to
>  disable it and see if we can reproduce the problem."
>  
>  
>
>


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