Technical Tip: How to Disable SELinux Temporarily or Permanently

[alaxkar]

Description	This article describes how to disable SELinux temporarily or permanently on Linux-based servers.
Scope	FortiSIEM.
Solution	On certain Linux distributions, SELinux is activated by default and operates in Enforcing mode. As a consequence may face such issues: The agent cannot identify which log types it should collect. It fails to send any logs to the Supervisor. Workaround: This can permanently disable or put it in Permissive mode. Step1: Check the SELinux status. sestatus Step2: Set SELinux permissive temporarily.  setenforce 0 Or, disable SELinux permanently: sed -i 's/enforcing/disabled/g' /etc/selinux/config Step3: To make these changes, reboot the server: reboot After reboot, check with the 'sestatus' command to check SELinux status.