on 3-11-2008 11:34 AM Bobby spake the following: > On Tuesday 11 March 2008 14:25:33 Hiep Nguyen wrote: >> hi all, i asked this topic couple days ago, but i have problem again. >> >> for some reasons, iptables was turned on again. is there any way to >> disable iptables completely? >> >> this is what i did last time: >> #service iptables stop > > Of course that has nothing to do with SELinux. Iptables is the firewall. You > stopped the firewall, but did not remove the setting that is executed when > you boot. > > If that is really what you want to do then remove iptables from the rc > directory. It depends on which distro you have but on RH compatible distro's, > such as CentOS it is in /etc/rc3.d/ and /etc/rc5.d. > > The name is prefixed with an S and a number which indicates it's startup > position. For example S10iptables. > > It is a shortcut or link as it's called in Linux and you can safely remove it. > The actual iptables startup script is in /etc/init.d and should not be > deleted. > Instead of adding and deleting shortcuts manually and accidentally breaking something, use chkconfig (man chkconfig). -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080311/a5a809e1/attachment-0005.sig>