Nigel Sollars wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, John (EBo) David wrote: > > > robert jorgenson wrote: > > > > > > not to sound stupid or anything but how exactly would i do that? i got to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d but i have no clue what to do now :( > > > > On my 7.1 boxen I find that I have: > > > > "ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/*fire*" reveals: > > > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K01personal-firewall.final@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K02SuSEfirewall_final@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K16SuSEfirewall_setup@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K23SuSEfirewall_init@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/K23personal-firewall.initial@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S01SuSEfirewall_init@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S01personal-firewall.initial@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S08SuSEfirewall_setup@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S22SuSEfirewall_final@ > > /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S23personal-firewall.final@ > > > > which are all links to elsewhere... > > > > Just remove them (as root: rm /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/*fire*"). > > > > Anyone see problems with doing that? > > > > EBo -- > > Im not sure if you can run yast @ run level 1 .. if you can excellent > cause alls youl want to do is run yast goto system admin then select > change configuration this will list all the stuff started by the system > and at startup you can change the yes which is prolly set for personal > firewall to no yast will save the new value and run SuSEconfig to align > the system files... > > This will achieve the same result as the solution given above Yes, and actually a much better solution that what I suggested since SuSE has several configuration description files and could possibly overwrite the changes. In this case probably not, but running YaST is a ***much*** better sollution. Thanks for the correction Nigel! EBo --