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Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux variant that implements a variety of security policies, including U.S. Department of Defense style mandatory access controls, through the use of Linux Security Modules (LSM) in the Linux kernel. It is not a Linux distribution, but rather a set of modifications that can be applied to Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux and BSD. (wikipedia) Usually SELinux comes with RedHat-like Linux distros.

WordPress Sitemap not notifying Search Engines because of SELinux

26-Sep-07

If you use an SELinux-based distro, you may have encountered problems with your XML-Sitemap plugin not updating Google or any of the other search engines (Ask.com, Yahoo) properly. Obviously, since you’re familiar with file security contexts and SELinux, generally-speaking, you learn quickly that you need to indicate a security context type of httpd_cache_t, but […]

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