Re: [Firestarter-user] OpenSuse 10.2 / KDE

[J.O. A. <tr...@in...>]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, John Emmas wrote:

>> chkconfig --level 0123456 osfw off
>> chkconfig --level 0123456 iptables off
>
> Thanks.  I found out that I can disable the OpenSuse firewall quite easily,
> using Yast.  Although I did this and rebooted, it didn't make any difference
> (FireStarter still isn't displaying any incoming events).

Ensure that the firestarter is run at boot up (still not talking about the 
GUI), so run now the "iptables -L" again and hopefully you will get quite 
a lot of output still, ot else the service was never started and you would 
be without a "firewall".


> I was going to try some of your other suggestions, starting with:-
>
> chkconfig --level 0123456 iptables off
>
> However, I'm a bit confused here.  Prior to coming to this thread I was
> under the impression that iptables is the actual firewall, whereas
> FireStarter is simply a GUI that shows what iptables is doing and allows it
> to be configured.  Therfore, what would be the purpose of turning off
> iptables?

Yes, the turning off the iptables service don't disable the usage of 
iptables. The iptable service is to use to save the current iptable rules 
at shutdown and then restore those at bootup. This gives the problem that 
temoprary iptable rules will become permanent if you don't remember to 
remove those.


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