system-config-firewall-1.2.7-1.fc9.noarch If I disable the firewall from the GUI, it adds "--disabled" to the /etc/sysconfig/system-config-firewall but doesn't really disable the firewall. It doesn't appear that the iptables startup script even references that file. Needless to say this causes lots of head scratching when many network services (like ypbinding to a broadcast server, synergy) don't work and you think there's no firewall in the way.
A bit off topic... Thomas, using ypbind to broadcast server is not good idea (i. e. security reasons). Do you have any particular matter to not put your server(s) address(es) to ypbind configuration file? I'm just curious:)
I didn't realize you could specify multiple servers. We've used broadcast for reliability. When a yp server goes down, our linux clients just switch servers transparently. We have a firewalled, relatively safe environment. Still, knowing you can specify multiple servers will cause us to change our ways.
If you disable the firewall, the files /etc/sysconfig/{iptables,ip6tables} are removed. These files are used by the services iptables and ip6tables. Please describe your problem more detailed.
I've disabled the firewall and /etc/sysconfig/iptables is still exists. If I re-run system-config-firewall, it says in red at the bottom that the firewall is disabled but that iptables file still exists and if iptables is chkconfig'd on, it starts a firewall. system-config-firewall-1.2.7-1.fc9.noarch
same here. /etc/sysconfig/ip*tables exists even if I disable the feature on system-config-firewall.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I also have this problem in fedora 9. As far as I can tell, making ANY changes in system-config-firewall at all doesn't work!
I have the same problem in Fedora 9. But stopping the iptables service just disables the firewall completely, a solution for now. Probably a bug in the GUI.
*** Bug 447370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 447616 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
system-config-firewall-1.2.8-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-firewall'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-4397
system-config-firewall-1.2.9-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.