OT: building a new MS machine and stuck at the firewall

[Dennis Willson]

My comment about being new to managing Linux was really more targeted to 
the original poster who said:

"Well I thought that I was not a newbie, but I am already stuck and
having not did anything but install CentOS 4.2.

I opted to enable the firewall during the setup, and now I do not even
know how to turn it off let alone configure the iptables, as it seems
that I need to do.  I searched and searched and I really just want to
turn it off because it is not directly on the net.

Any simple command ex: service firewall stop chkconfig firewall or
something to turn it off?"


It wasn't really meant to be directed at you... Sorry
Dennis


Julian Field wrote:

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>>If you're new to managing Linux,
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>Yeah, a bit, only been doing it since we first opened our public 24x7  
>Linux lab back in 1993.
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>Thanks for the thought though ;->
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>>Webmin can make life a lot easier.  You can also sometimes learn a  
>>few things by looking at the config files before and after you do  
>>something in Webmin to understand what the configs are really doing.
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>>Dennis
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>>>Joshua Hirsh wrote:
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>>>>>Any simple command ex: service firewall stop chkconfig firewall or
>>>>>something to turn it off?
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>>>>Hi Billy,
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>>>>You have a few options:
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>>>>1) type 'setup' as root and disable the firewall from there
>>>>2) type 'service iptables stop', and 'chkconfig iptables  
>>>>off' (this disabled the firewall startup script)
>>>>3) for a temporary removal until next reboot, type 'iptables - 
>>>>F' (this flushes out the iptables rules)
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>>>Once you've got iptables in, how do you configure it?
>>>Presumably there are some reasonable firewall configuration tools  
>>>included with RHEL/CentOS?
>>>I've always just done it the hard way, any time I've needed it  
>>>(which is rarely, we have FW-1 connected to an active IDS), but  
>>>there must be an easy way.
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