Disabling Firewall From Command Line

Ben Sytko · 02-15-2004, 05:32 PM

Hello,

I installed Red Hat 9 in "server" mode and I enabled the firewall during install. Now, I can't access Apache remotely so I need to disable the firewall. Anyone know how to do this from the command line? Its a server install so I didn't install X. The system isn't powerful enough to handle X anyway. Thanks

-Ben

ashamril · 02-15-2004, 10:01 PM

# service iptables stop
# chkconfig iptables off

aqoliveira · 02-16-2004, 08:43 AM

Howzit

Nothing wrong in what ashamril said but could try this as well:

option 1:

service iptables stop
service iptables save

option 2:

ntsysv
setup

both these options are mneu driven and allows u stop and save the services.

chow

Ben Sytko · 02-16-2004, 02:57 PM

Thanks both of you! Now will this make it so the firewall never starts or do I need to run some other commands to make it not start everytime I boot the server. Not that I plan on rebooting that often, but still. Thanks

peter_robb · 02-16-2004, 05:27 PM

WARNING!!

aqoliveira
Think carefully about your 1st option...

service iptables stop...clears the rules
service iptables save... will save the current active rules (now cleared=none) into /etc/sysconfig/iptables,
effectively wiping the old ruleset out...