"Newsbox" <nospam_for_me_please@thanks.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:49:20 -0500, Newsbox wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:43:20 +0000, Doug Holtz NOSPAM in adress wrote:
>>
>>> Group;
>>>
>>> I have this old DEC server running my web site using Red Hat 7.3 with
>>> kernel
>>> 2.4.20-43.7.legacy
>>>
>>> ipchains had been my original set up with pmfirewall. Now I want to set
>>> up
>>> iptables. pmfirewall is no longer in use.
>>>
>>> I installed iptables using rpm and now want to remove ipchains and use
>>> iptables exclusively. Can I just rpm -e ipchains? How do I config
>>> iptables
>>> to start automatically?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Doug
>
> Doug, sorry about the previous post. It did come from this machine, but I
> have no idea why or what it is supposed to mean. Please disregard.
>
> You can (probably should) remove ipchains, but it is not necessary to
> remove it from disk to disable it. From a root prompt use chkconfig
> command to configure what is running.
>
> You can configure (almost?) anything to start itself with init.

Thanks for the update. When I ran rpm -e ipchains I get a notice that it
depends on lokkit and can't continue.

I ran sysconfig --list and see ipchains and iptables.

Maybe I will learn something as I sift thru inittab, etc.

Doug