Panther Server firewall shutdown?

[Geoff Lee]

On 28/04/07 2:49, Chris Murphy wrote:

>> Server is 10.3.9 and is headless, but a keyboard is available so I  
>> have to do this totally blind. On 10.4 it would be easy: sudo ipfw  
>> disable firewall but apparently that's an ipfw2 feature, which  
>> Panther server isn't running.
>>
>> Since I have no feedback, I don't know what the PID is for ipfw in  
>> order to kill it. I also don't know if it gets killed, if there is  
>> some daemon that will relaunch ipfw anyway. And if that's the case  
>> what I need to do is swap out ipfw.conf with ipfw.bak and then  
>> relaunch ipfw.

There is no daemon, it's part of the kernel. 'sudo ipfw flush' will disable all rules.

HTH

-geoff

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