I just did your suggestion. Still no effection. What's else I should do? Thanks! Jessica On Fri, 13 May 2005, Bill Tangren wrote: > Jessica Zhu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I tried to customize and set up firewall using iptables on Red Hat > > Enterprise Linux ES release 3. The file /etc/sysconfig/iptables got > > edited. After I finished editing, I restarted service using > > /etc/init.d/iptables restart or service iptables restart. However, though > > it's got successfully restarted, when I checked the status, none of my > > editing taking effection. > > It's weired. For example, the default chain INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD all > > are ACCEPT, down in new iptables I edited, it's like as follows, > > > > *filter > > :INPUT DROP > > :FORWARD DROP > > :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] > > > > But nothing take effection after iptables got restarted. What happened? > > > > Jessica > > > > You need to save the changes: > > # service iptables save > > before you stop and restart the service. > > HTH, > Bill > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
