Firewall

Jason Dixon jason at dixongroup.net
Sat Sep 25 00:27:02 UTC 2004


On Sep 24, 2004, at 8:24 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Jason Dixon wrote:
>
>> On Sep 25, 2004, at 5:32 PM, Stuart Sears wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri 24 September 2004 19:26, Damien Estrada wrote:
>>>> Can anybody tell me how to unblock port 25 from the firewall 
>>>> installed
>>>> with red hat ??
>>> lokkit -> customize -> check the SMTP box
>>
>> I would've warned about the consequences of using lokkit.  For those
>> that don't know, lokkit is a write-only application.  In other words,
>> it lacks the ability to read in an existing configuration.  If you've
>> already used lokkit to make a custom configuration, or if you've 
>> edited
>> your /etc/sysconfig/iptables manually, running lokkit will wipe your
>> existing ruleset.
>
> That used to be true, and it was really annoying.  In FC2, this is at 
> last
> fixed (for both lokkit and system-config-securitylevel)!  Hallelujah!

Cool beans, thanks for the update!

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Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
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