[CentOS] disable SELinux

Hiep Nguyen wrote:
> thanks. i may well do that b/c i'm behind firewall anyway. also, i'm 
> not ready to tackle iptables at this time.

you can configure the simple default firewall with the GUI 
system-config-securitylevel, or the command line version, 
system-config-securitylevel-tui (uses curses to give a text menu 
interface)...  this will allow you to enable ports, either standard 
services like www, or custom port numbers.

You can enable/disable selinux via either of these tools, too.