On 10/31/2009 04:10 AM Tony Molloy wrote: > On Saturday 31 October 2009 07:48:05 hadi motamedi wrote: >> Dear All >> To open a port , I know that I need to go to "System -> Administration -> >> Security Level and Firewall" -> Other ports and then I can open port-5901 >> as tcp protocol . Can you please do me favor and let me know how it can be >> done from the command line (if my CentOS is text-mode installed) ? (perhaps >> via iptables?) >> Let me thank you in advance > > > Edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables > > Restart iptables with service iptables restart > > Tony My /etc/sysconfig/iptables states at the top that editing of it is not recommended. Yeah, I don't always follow such recommendations myself, but is there perhaps another way more in keeping with the sense of the application?