[ale] RedHat 8.0 new install access problems

[Matty]

On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 10:16, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> By default, all those service you listed are turned off. They are
> controlled by xinetd.
> 
> /etc/xinetd.d/*
> 
> change the line "disabled = yes" to no for each service you want running
> from xinetd and restart xinetd :
> /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
> 
> The old default days of "run everything after installation" are gone. 


Tell that to Sun :) I wish Solaris came secure like FreeBSD/Most Linux
distros.

> 
> Apache will not run without a name for the box. As your box is a dhcp
> client, the name in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf will not match `hostname`
> so it will only talk to localhost.
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 09:50, Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> > This is embarassing....
> > 
> > New install of RedHat 8.0.  I did a desktop with some custom additions.  I want apache running.  I want to telnet into the box.  I want to ftp to the box.  I am inside a corporate firewall.  I want no firewall running on Linux.
> > 
> > The box successfully get a DHCP ip address.  I can ping it from another box.
> > Apache works only within the box.  Can not be seen outside the box.
> > FTP refused by the box.
> > Telnet  "connectin failed".
> > 
> > 
> > During configuration, I said NO FIREWALL.  I saw iptables flash during boot.  I want to the GUI for security and attempted to select no firewall.  No luck.  I attempted to select custom and allow everything in.  NO luck.  I went into the configuration and stopped the IPtables service.  No luck.  I rebooted.  Did not see iptables during startup.  Went into services and IP tables remains unchecked.
> > 
> > What am I missing?  This stuff used to just work back in 5.2 and 6.0 days.
> > 
> > John
> > 
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