[CentOS] Centos 6.6 does not have a default firewall?

Grant McChesney grantmc at gmail.com
Fri Nov 14 21:29:00 UTC 2014


On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:

> On 11/07/2014 09:49 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On 11/05/2014 04:23 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >> I noticed that the 6.6 x86_64 DVD ISO install of minimal no longer
> creates a /etc/sysconfig/iptables file.
> >>
> >> What prompted the change?
> >>
> >
> > No idea WHY it changed ... but I have validated that the exact same
> > behavior exists in RHEL 6.6.
> >
> > A minimal RHEL 6.6 install shows these files only in /etc/sysconfig/
> >
> > [root at localhost sysconfig]# ls | grep tables
> > ip6tables-config
> > iptables-config
> >
> > So this is the same as upstream, and therefore the expected (even if not
> > the desired) results on CentOS 6.6.
> >
> > I also see this:
> >
> > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7831
> >
> > Which while not DIRECTLY related, will need to be solved to run:
> >
> > system-config-firefall-tui
> >
> > (If you want to generate an /etc/sysconfig/iptables file)
>
> Filed an upstream bug so that they can clarify if this is the desired
> result:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1161682
>
>
>
Thanks for opening the bugzilla, Johnny.  We just discovered this issue on
minimal netinstall as well.

Grant



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