Thanks Steward and Robert for those suggestions, they make plenty of sense!. About the two SSH terminal, if I activate a wrong firewall change that blocks the SSH port, would it not also terminate the existing terminals since new packets going in would be rejected, or does it not affect already established TCP connections? Probably also going to make a script to shutdown the firewall as well as one for reboot. Since so far all 3 times my noobness involves firewalling myself out, although in a slightly different way each time! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080806/350e509e/attachment-0005.html>