On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote: > Am 07.07.2013 14:57, schrieb Bob Metelsky: > > very perplexed here - I need to turn off iptables. Ive tried > > Why do you have to turn off the local firewall? > > > > > OPGX280 ~ :( # cat /etc/selinux/config > > SELINUX=disabled > > Bad practice. > > > Alexander > > P.S. If you reply then please follow the general rule to not top-post > and to trim your quotes. Thanks. > I appreciate the admonitions on bad practices - but for now I need to understand why something is happening and stop it OPGX280 ~ # yum remove virt* ================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Removing: virt-manager i686 0.9.0-18.el6 @base 5.4 M virt-top i686 1.0.4-3.15.el6 @base 922 k virt-viewer i686 0.5.2-18.el6_4.2 @updates 751 k virt-what i686 1.11-1.2.el6 @base 35 k Transaction Summary ================================================================================ Remove 4 Package(s) Installed size: 7.1 M Is this ok [y/N]: y ... Removed: virt-manager.i686 0:0.9.0-18.el6 virt-top.i686 0:1.0.4-3.15.el6 virt-viewer.i686 0:0.5.2-18.el6_4.2 virt-what.i686 0:1.11-1.2.el6 Complete! OPGX280 ~ # OPGX280 ~ :( # chkconfig|grep virt libvirt-guests 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off libvirtd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off reboot OK!!! Nice call on the virt* after reboot... OPGX280 ~ # /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status iptables: Firewall is not running. My goodness I would have never guessed that an unneeded package would have caused that - THANK YOU! Now I can move on to the work I need to do - Thank you again > > >