Disabling Firewall From Command Line
 

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

# service iptables stop
# chkconfig iptables off

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

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

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... :eek: