4
Building Profiles from the
Command Line
Novell® AppArmor provides the ability to use a command line interface rather than a
graphical interface to manage and configure your system security. Track the status of
Novell AppArmor and create, delete, or modify AppArmor profiles using the AppArmor
command line tools.
TIP: Background Information
Before starting to manage your profiles using the AppArmor command line
tools, check out the general introduction to AppArmor given in
Chapter 1,
Immunizing Programs
(page 1) and
Chapter 2, Profile Components and Syntax
(page 11).
4.1 Checking the AppArmor Module
Status
An AppArmor module can be in any one of three states:
Unloaded
The AppArmor module is not loaded into the kernel.
Running
The AppArmor module is loaded into the kernel and is enforcing AppArmor pro-
gram policies.
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