[CentOS-docs] Re: IPTables HowTo (Comment)

Mon Aug 25 12:48:56 UTC 2008
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>

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 >:)