On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 19:12, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > thanks for your reply. how do i turn the firewall on/off?
/etc/init.d/iptables stop > > On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 07:07 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 18:44, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > >> i am going to use my linux server as my smtp server (it and all > >> workstations are behind a firewall). how do i open port 25? > > > > I think you really are talking about punching a whole in the firewall. > > On any distro with a kernel >= 2.4.x, this is done using iptables. > > You'll need to learn how to manipulate iptables. For now, just turn > > off > > the firewall altogether. You'll need to modify sendmail's > > configuration > > to allow inbound connections, though. > > > > The port itself is opened by the smtp process itself. It really has > > nothing to do with the firewall, except that the firewall needs to be > > told to allow traffic through to that port. Anyway just a terminology > > correction. > > > > Michael > > > > > >> > >> or any ports for that matter? > >> > >> > >> ____________________ > >> BYU Unix Users Group > >> http://uug.byu.edu/ > >> ___________________________________________________________________ > >> List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > -- > > Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
