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Rick Stevens wrote:
>On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 21:26 -0400, John Wirt wrote:
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>>Hmm..can you tell me how to set the security level?
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>>Thank you, Rick.
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>Become the root user:
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> $ su -
> (enter root's password here)
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>>From there (assuming RHEL 3, RHEL4 or FC2-5), run:
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> # system-config-securitylevel
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I did this. Linux responded,
-bash : system-config-securitylevel: command not found
J Wirt
>>John Wirt
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>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 00:58 -0400, John Wirt wrote:
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>>>>Thanks you several of you, I have RedHat booting to completion just fine
>>>>except for one problem.
>>>>
>>>>Near the end of the boot sequence, RedHat apparently tries to connect to
>>>>some time standard at 66.187.224.4. The sequence is:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ntpd: Opening firewall for input from 66.187.224.4 port 123
>>>> ntpd: Opening firewall for input from clock.redhat.com port 123
>>>> iptables v 1.2.8: host/network clock.redhat.com not found [FAILED]
>>>>
>>>> use iptables -h for assistance.
>>>>
>>>>However, iptables -h doesn't provide any help.
>>>>
>>>>What is the problem? How can I fix it?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>You must have the firewall open ports for TCP and UDP port 53 (DNS).
>>>What's probably happening is that the system is trying to resolve
>>>clock.redhat.com (66.187.224.4 and 66.187.233.4) and can't because the
>>>firewall is blocking DNS issues. This happens if you used the "maximum"
>>>setting on system-config-securitylevel as that blocks EVERYTHING
>>>(including DNS). Use the "medium" security setting.
>>>
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