Ned Slider wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: >> Manuel Wolfshant wrote: >>> Oh, yes, please add a note about "at now + 5 minutes pretty please >>> disable firewall". It's simple, effective, useful. Safety nets are >>> needed. >>> >> >> Something like this maybe: >> >> echo 'service iptables stop' | at now + 5 minutes >> >> One issue with this approach being that the at package isn't always >> installed by default so may not be present on all systems. >> > > SELinux doesn't like this approach either >:) worked like a breeze here: [root@pc39 ~]# echo 'service iptables stop' | at now + 1 minutes job 2 at 2008-08-25 16:02 [root@pc39 ~]# service iptables status Table: nat Chain PREROUTING (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT) num target prot opt source destination 1 MASQUERADE all -- 192.168.122.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 [...] [root@pc39 ~]# date Mon Aug 25 16:01:47 EEST 2008 [root@pc39 ~]# service iptables status Firewall is stopped. [root@pc39 ~]# date Mon Aug 25 16:03:42 EEST 2008 [root@pc39 ~]# getenforce Enforcing What error did you get ?
