Do you disable SELinux?

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Published on 2008-09-18T22:55:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 3:01 UTC
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I want to know if people here typically disable SELinux on installations where it is on by default? If so can you explain why, what kind of system it was, etc?

I'd like to get as many opinions on this as possible.

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