firewall- cannot modify settings

rob7712 · 03-26-2003, 02:08 PM

I am a Linux newbie and decided to give Red Hat 8.0 a go.
My project is to setup a web server, email server etc on an old
Dual Pentium Pro machine.

Everything went smooth until I tried modifying the firewall from the HIGH setting to a MEDIUM setting allowing incoming FTP, WWW, etc.

Everytime I try changing this setting it always defaults to HIGH.

Tryed Lokkit, re-installed... nothing works.

Any ideas or solutions out there would be appreciated.

rob

wildtiger23 · 03-26-2003, 02:13 PM

I had the same problem with redhat. I change the setting in the configuration files and nothings as change.... Always HIGH... I change RedHat for slackware 9.0... I use linux since 1998.

I think next week RedHat 9.0 become aviable.

Good Luck.

david_ross · 03-26-2003, 02:21 PM

It doesn't change to high - it just doesn't read the config each time lokkit is loaded. If you set it to no firewall you WILL have NO firewall. To see your firewall rules (List) type either:
iptables -L
ipchains -L
(depends what is installed)
to remove (Flush) all rules type
iptables -F
ipchains -F

EDIT: You must do this as root.

peter_robb · 04-01-2003, 04:13 AM

Lokkit is broken. Strange though that RH haven't issued a fix for it yet...

Have a look at http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/