how do i disable the firewall module?

[slamp]

i've added a rule and it activate the firewall module. now that i have deleted the rule, the firewall module is still active. how do i completely disable the firewall module? i have to do service iptables stop everytime i reboot the server. running plesk 8.1.1 on rhel4.

 

[Amin Taheri]

you can do

iptables -F

Delete all rules in chain or all chains

 

[slamp]

that's basically what service iptables does. thing is when box is rebooted, it starts the firewall again. there is an init script psa-firewall that starts it when it finds /usr/local/psa/var/modules/firewall/active.flag. i can probably just delete that and get on with it but if the firewall module interface activated it, how come there is no place to deactivate?

 

[faris]

If you want to totally remove the Plesk firewall you can just remove the firewall module, under Modules -> Manage Modules (or something along those lines).

If the firewall module is installed it will be active whether you add a rule or not (as long as you have rebooted at some point after loading the module and quite probably without a reboot). So I'm not sure why adding a rule then removing it has caused you problems but removing the firewall module will hopefully solve the problem for you.

Faris.

 

[Amin Taheri]

There is always
rpm -e psa-firewall