need help with suse 7.2

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 --