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

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

service iptables stop
service iptables save
service iptables start

That should do it.

Dennis Willson wrote:
> 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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>> On 27 Feb 2006, at 22:50, Dennis Willson wrote:
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>>  
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>>> If you're new to managing Linux,
>>>   
>>
>> Yeah, a bit, only been doing it since we first opened our public 
>> 24x7  Linux lab back in 1993.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Thanks for the thought though ;->
>>
>>  
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>> Julian Field wrote:
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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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         
>>>>> Hi Billy,
>>>>>
>>>>> You have a few options:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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)
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>> 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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