From: "Kevin McConnell" <kevymac@yahoo.com> > --- Stephen H Carbin <steve@carbinworld.com> wrote: > > > How and what do I need to edit manually to disable > > the firewall? > > If you want to completely disable the firewall, you > have a few choices. If you feel more comfortable with > graphical tools, simply run setup and goto system > services and uncheck iptables, ipchains and ip6tables. > If you like the command line, type: service iptables > stop > and then you can turn it on/off in certain runlevels > using chkconfig by typing: chkconfig 0123456 iptables > off > > and you can alternatively see if things are off/on by > typing: chkconfig --list SERVICENAME ; > where SERVICENAME is iptables, ipchains or ip6tables > and it will tell you which runlevels it's on or off. > If you run in graphical mode, you run in runlevel 5, > otherwise you run in runlevel 3. If you want it off, > turn it off in all runlevels. > HTH Note that there is a technical name for people who do this and leave the machine connected to the Internet that arose from the cracker world, "luser." Given how fast I have seen hits on my firewall as I connect to the net I figure the MTTH, Mean Time To Hacked, for such machines is measurable in single digit minutes or less. {^_-} -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list