Disable firewall in Redhat 8.0!

-mk- · 07-26-2004, 08:54 AM

is it possible to disable this "service" or whatever it is using a CLI? if I set my firewall to "disabled" and save/exit its still "high" when I open it next time. I also tried lokkit with the same result, guess this has to do with permissions? but on which files?

-mk-

calluminsky · 07-26-2004, 09:29 AM

I think you're refering to iptables...

You need to do the following:

chkconfig --list |grep iptables

If the service is set to "on" then:

chkconfig iptables off

That should stop the iptables service starting on boot up. To stop it if it's running now do:

service iptables stop

Good luck!

Calluminsky

iXneonXi · 07-26-2004, 09:40 AM

Guess what i'll just hop in on this conversation. I'm using 2.6 kernel and it doesnt use iptables or ipchains. What firewall does it use because i want it DISABLED! so i can run my video game server and get it listed in the GameSpy gamebrowser.

David the H. · 07-26-2004, 12:01 PM

There are no firewalls in Linux outside of IPtables/Chains (and some graphical interfaces for them), AFAIK. Linux doesn't need them because these built in versions work very well. I don't run Red Hat, but I'm sure it has something in it's system administration tools for enabling and disabling services. I know I've got something similar provided by Gnome that I use occasionally. If you're sure you don't have IPtables running then you're more likely having some network configuration problems.

iXneonXi · 07-26-2004, 05:09 PM

is someone gonna answer my question ... it seems i dont have iptables or ipchains but i do have something and i cant use my gameserver