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selinuxenabled — Check whether SELinux is enabled. Returns exit code 0 if SELinux is enabled, and 1 if it is not. See

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Problem

How to use the selinuxenabled command: Check whether SELinux is enabled. Returns exit code 0 if SELinux is enabled, and 1 if it is not. See also: getenforce, setenforce, sestatus. More information: <https://manned.org/selinuxenabled>.

Solution

selinuxenabled — Check whether SELinux is enabled. Returns exit code 0 if SELinux is enabled, and 1 if it is not. See also: getenforce, setenforce, sestatus. More information: <https://manned.org/selinuxenabled>.

Check if SELinux is enabled (no output; check exit code with echo $?):
selinuxenabled


Check if SELinux is enabled and print the result:
selinuxenabled && echo "SELinux is enabled" || echo "SELinux is disabled"


Use in a shell script to conditionally execute commands:
if selinuxenabled; then echo "SELinux is running"; fi

Code Snippets

Check if SELinux is enabled (no output; check exit code with `echo $?`)

selinuxenabled

Check if SELinux is enabled and print the result

selinuxenabled && echo "SELinux is enabled" || echo "SELinux is disabled"

Use in a shell script to conditionally execute commands

if selinuxenabled; then echo "SELinux is running"; fi

Context

tldr-pages: linux/selinuxenabled

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