ken wrote: > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Yeah, editing directly can be risky, nothing worse than making a change only to find that access to your server just disappeared and you need to get in front of it to reset via the console.... I use webmin for most of my edits, only make it accessible from the LAN and not the WAN. You can always tunnel the :10000 port via ssh and access securely from a remote location. The webmin console is left open while I test, thus I have not yet tripped up on this though I can imagine it is not fool proof. HTH Rob -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091102/80fb01b7/attachment-0005.vcf>