lol, I'm aware of the risks, this is a test machine, on it's own sub-network, behind a smoothwall firewall box At 08:27 PM 10/26/2002, you wrote: >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 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list