Fwd: How to desactivate personal_firewall
Bonjour, Small problem. I have a Postfix servor on a station. One day I decided to try the personal_firewall of SuSE 7.1. I thought to have configured it correctly (allow port 25 ans 110) but impossible to have access to the mail servor. Thus I have to type rcpersonal_firewall stop to be able to use the server. In /etc/rc.config I have the line START_FW = "n" Thus the Firewall should not be started Can someone tell me how to ask SuSE 7.1 not to enable personal_firewall (or how not to block ports 25 and 110). Thank you -- Alain Barthélemy Section de Biosécurité et Biotechnologie Institut de Santé Publique R. Juliette Wytsman, 14 B-1050 Bruxelles -------------------------------------------------------
Hello Alain, I saw many people with same sort of confusion. Though I was one of them... There are two different products: a) SuSEFirewall for ipchains (and SuSEfirewall2 for iptables on kernels > 2.4) Is a complete FW solution you can configure extensively by means of /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config b) Personal_firewall Is a "boxed" solution for single users that don't want to allow any incoming packets (usual internet modem dial-up users).
Small problem. I have a Postfix servor on a station. One day I decided to try the personal_firewall of SuSE 7.1. I thought to have configured it correctly (allow port 25 ans 110) but impossible to have access to the mail servor. Thus I have to type rcpersonal_firewall stop to be able to use the server.
If you want to open some ports.. then you definetly need to use SuSEfirewall.
In /etc/rc.config I have the line
START_FW = "n"
Yes, this variable sets in /etc/rc.config to start SuSEfirewall. Check configuration file /etc/rc.config.d/firewall.rc.config if it does not work the way you expected. In the other hand, if you are using personal_firewall, this is not the variable to stop it. Look in your /etc/rc.config for ... I do not remember this variable... look for anything about firewall, FW, personal_fw, etc... Hope this helps, Pep.
** On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 12:03:58 +0200 Pep Serrano
On Monday 22 October 2001 9:31 am, Alain Barthelemy wrote:
Small problem. I have a Postfix servor on a station. One day I decided to try the personal_firewall of SuSE 7.1. I thought to have configured it correctly (allow port 25 ans 110) but impossible to have access to the mail servor. Thus I have to type rcpersonal_firewall stop to be able to use the server.
In /etc/rc.config I have the line
START_FW = "n"
Thus the Firewall should not be started
Can someone tell me how to ask SuSE 7.1 not to enable personal_firewall (or how not to block ports 25 and 110).
Bonsoir,
SuSE Personal Firewall is set in YaST2 Modem set-up. It blocks all incoming
connections. REJECT_ALL_INCOMING_CONNECTIONS=no will turn it off. Also, see
/etc/rc.config.d/security.rc.config.
M
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