selinuxenabled

Check if SELinux is enabled (no output)

$ selinuxenabled

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

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

selinuxenabled

selinuxenabled checks whether SELinux is enabled on the system. It produces no output but returns exit code 0 if SELinux is enabled, and 1 if it is disabled.
This is useful for scripts that need to conditionally execute commands based on SELinux status.

Only checks if SELinux is enabled, not whether it's in enforcing or permissive mode. Use getenforce for mode information.

Part of libselinux-utils, providing SELinux status checking utilities.

getenforce(1), setenforce(8), sestatus(8)