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.