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I try to enable Selinux from this site,http://wiki.eri.ucsb.edu/sysadm/SELinux , but it didn't work, On linux shell, I tried this command as follows

root@vps# getenforce

Disabled

root@vps#setenforece 1

setenforce: SELinux is disabled

root@vps# getenforce

Disabled

change the file at /etc/sysconfig/selinux from changing SELINUX=enforcing to SELINUX=disabled

reboot, but it didn't work.

On the link instruction, why turn on Selinux need to SELINUX=disabled ?
And how I know selinux is enabled or not ?

Please advise

I just commented there and came here to double check that the virtualization was with OpenVZ. Guess so since you are the question asker in both?

Ok, the first thing to check is what does sestatus return for the "SELinux status: "

If that line returns disabled that means that you disabled it before a reboot. Think of this like the main breaker on your house. If it is off, the circuit breakers between enforcing and permissive won't mean much.

If that is the case you can set your  /etc/sysconfig/selinux to "SELINUX=enforcing"  then reboot.
The sestatus "SELinux status: " should now return "enabled". Now you can use set enforce to switch between enforcing and permissive.

Permissive is different than Disabled. It is SUPER IMPORTANT to understand how "Disabling" impacts policies relabeling. This is not uncommon and can lead to many headaches. Fedora documentation does a good job describing this. As do Dan Walsh's blogs. He is pretty much "the Man" with SeLinux.

Note - This may not fall into this thread but you typically want to avoid Disabling in SeLinux, even when troubleshooting, as you can undo a lot of policy label changes if you didn't set them properly. Go with Permissive as you gain your footing and if you need to figure out if SElinux is messing something up.

Edit  /etc/selinux/config and make sure it is enforcing.

The file should look like this when done:
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
#     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
#     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
#     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=enforcing
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
#     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
#     minimum - Modification of targeted policy. Only selected processes are protected.
#     mls - Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted


Reboot the system to load selinux.