--- Tolun ARDAHANLI tolun.ardahanli@linux.org.tr wrote:

hi; the output of those commands are listed below... but i see that i cant reach to iptables if i am opening a console in Gnome(however i give su- command but still was the same problem)... But if I am opening directly the console with pressing ctrl+f1 and giving root and password of it than i can use iptables command!!!

# ls -l /sbin/iptables -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57408 Jan 6 2007 /sbin/iptables # rpm -q iptables iptables-1.3.5-1.2.1

thanks to all

2008/1/23, Tolun ARDAHANLI tolun.ardahanli@linux.org.tr:

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Hi;

in our server we dont have "iptables" command! and

i am trying to install

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it with that

yum -y install iptables

after this command it says that "...nothings to

do". Do you have any

...

suggestion for installing the iptables?

thanks a lot....

Note: CENTos 5.1 is istalled...

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Hello,

It looks like you did not put a space between the su and dash. It should be su - not su- this should solve your su problems.

Robert Spangler wrote:

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:25, Tolun ARDAHANLI wrote:

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in our server we dont have "iptables" command! and i am trying to install it with that

yum -y install iptables

after this command it says that "...nothings to do". Do you have any suggestion for installing the iptables?

thanks a lot....

It is most likely installed as this is default unless you tell the install program not to install it.

To start IPTALBES:

service iptables start

To ensure it starts all the time on reboot:

chkconf --level 2345 iptables on

that doesn't actually 'start iptables', rather that sets it so the system firewall scripts are run at startup.

/sbin/iptables isn't actually a service, its a command line tool for manipulating and displaying the kernel firewall rule tables. the /etc/init.d/iptables 'service' script runs the rules scripts in /etc/sysconfig/iptables and -config files, which in turn are configured by lokkit or whatever.

anyone building custom firewall rules, with smoothwall or whatever, will probably use a different startup script... I frequently call mine /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall and invoke it from my own /etc/init.d/firewall 'service' entry.