[Gllug] Port filtering question

Alistair Mann al at lgeezer.net
Sat Oct 2 09:21:57 UTC 2010


Jan Henkins wrote:
>  On 01/10/10 20:52, Alistair Mann wrote:
> > It's worth pointing out that iptables -nL is /preferable/ to lsmod
> > | grep iptables; the former would reveal the presence of iptables
> > compiled into the kernel, whereas the latter shows that presence
> > only if it was moduled in.
>
>  Agreed.
>
> > Jan Henkins also suggested looking at selinux' status but didn't
> > add how: ls /selinux   //suggests is or was present, no such file
> > or directory otherwise sudo getenforce    //returns status if
> > present, command not found otherwise
>
>  I deliberately did not go into details here, since I have no idea
>  which distro is being used but salsaman. On my CentOS5 machines,
>  selinux has it's configuration files in /etc/selinux (I have not
>  worked with selinux on Debian-style machines before, but Google finds
>  many great examples).

I know enough to drive selinux on my Debian box here but not much more: 
/selinux appears to be a default working directory rather than 
configuration files: those, like yours, also live in /etc/selinux.

Cheers,
-- 
Alistair Mann

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