Hi, Does the Path "/sbin" exist in the File ".bash_profile" of User root ? If not you may add the path to the file. Maybe that could help you The other way is, that you call iptables With the full path "/sbin/iptables". That Should also work well if you don't want To edit .bash_profile (why ever). Regards Marc Rebischke ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Tolun ARDAHANLI <tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 23. Januar 2008 14:39 An: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Betreff: [CentOS] Re: Why iptables are not working? 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 at linux.org.tr>: Hi; 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.... Note: CENTos 5.1 is istalled... -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta: tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr Icq:326600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tolun ARDAHANLI Computer Engineer E-mail: tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr Icq:326600 -- Tolun ARDAHANLI Bilgisayar Muhendisi E-posta:tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr Icq:326600 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tolun ARDAHANLI Computer Engineer E-mail:tolun.ardahanli at linux.org.tr Icq:326600 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080123/89d527ae/attachment-0004.html>