[PLUG] 2 Questions

[Dan Young]

Dirk Ouellette said:
> I have two questions on 2 different subjects. I've found out why my
> daughter's box can't ping even the attbi inet address that shows up
> on route -n. The damn firewall will NOT go below High no matter how
> I try to set it lower using redhat config and the GUI supplied in
> the distro. I even reinstalled and specified NO firewall and was
> ignored. I'm
> planning to use the cd's I burned for RH 8 instead of the cd's I got
> at the Linux clinic directly from RH and see if that will do the
> trick as I've had no such trouble from my machine with those cd's,
> unless someone can tell me how to kill that firewall from a
> terminal.I can't find the process ID from ps -aux, and maybe I'm not
> meant to for security
> reasons.

What Carla said. And as root:

# service iptables stop

should stop the firewall. If you want to keep it off long-term:

# chkconfig --del iptables

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District