Fedora 8 SELinux won't completely turn off

[NewtownGuy]

Hello,

I'm a Newbie when it comes to SELinux. I'm running Fedora 8 with the latest patches as of Jan 4, 2009. I've disabled the firewall in Setup, and I've set SELinux to disabled in its configuration file.

The problem is that remote access to one of my custom server applications is still blocked. DMESG reports that SELinux is in permissive mode, not disabled.

How can I fully turn off SELinux ? What else could be blocking remote access to my server application ?

I have changed the ports for SSH and HTTP, and they work ok with the new ports.

If I wanted to use the Customize mode of the firewall, what delimiter should I use between a series of portrotocol entries in Setup >> Firewall ?

Thank you.

NewtownGuy

 

[Annihilannic]

What is the output of iptables --list?

What port is your application running on?

What's the output of netstat -an | grep ':nnn ' where nnn is the port number (include the space after it)?

As far as I know the firewall and SELinux are separate beasts, but I'm not an SELinux aficionado.

Annihilannic.

 

[zeland]

I have changed the ports for SSH and HTTP, and they work ok with the new ports.

If SELinux was enabled, you would not be able to start sshd or httpd on alternate ports without first configuring a SELinux rule. The SELinux config file is /etc/selinux/config.

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