tunring off firestarter firewall from console. how?

poiuytrewq · 11-17-2004, 06:28 PM

hi, im trying to test vnc server on my machine. except i forgot to turn off my firewall before i left for the other computer. (im using firestarter as my firewall (its running as a service))

so ive ssh'd in and have root access, but i dont know how to turn it off. any help?

[fedora core 1, and a recent (very likely the newest) version of firestarter]

plx n thx

secesh · 11-17-2004, 06:34 PM

i'd ps it to find the process, and kill it....

their manual only said click 'stop', soo... i then assume it only runs in the GUI, and can't be done much with offsite... never run it, can't say -- perhaps a 'man firestarter' or 'firestarter --help' can shed some light...

poiuytrewq · 11-17-2004, 06:52 PM

I'd ps it to find the process, and kill it....
i would too, if i knw what it was called (ps -A yeilds nothing called firestarter or the like)

no man page either

Tinkster · 11-17-2004, 06:55 PM

Ummm .... firestarter is most likely NOT running as a
service :) ... it's a graphical front-end to iptables, and
there IS no service running, it's kernel level.

To find out which rules are active do a
iptables -L

To flush them, do a
iptables -F

Cheers,
Tink