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[Mark T. Valites]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, John Seth wrote:

> cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/
> ls
> (look for something named S##iptables, mine is S08iptables)
> mv S08iptables K08iptables
> (change the "S" to a "K")
> ls

Actually, use chkconfig again:

chkconfig --level 345 iptables off

Then you don't have to mess around with the symlinks & Ks & Ss manually.

>
> There should now be K##iptables.  Now iptables will not start on bootup.
>  Using 'setup' RedHat will always try to get you to reset your firewall
> to "High"... it doesn't reflect any changes you made, at least not on my
> RH 9 system (which I'm using now).


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Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
CIT - SUNY Geneseo
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