Adam, In this case he needs to log via ssh to fix a configuration issue preventing him from logging from console...
Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Adam Thornton <[email protected]>wrote: > On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Vincent Getgood wrote: > > Hi all >> >> It looks like I have a firewall problem on the linux guest. I've >> checked with my N/W team, who tell me the SSH port is open on all >> firewalls between me and the mainframe. >> >> However, when I try to SSH in, I see the following messages on the VM >> guest console: - >> >> >> >> sfw2-inext-drop-deflt in eth0 out mac ... etc >> >> >> >> Which seems to suggest that suse firewall is blocking SSH. >> >> >> >> I can't logon to disable the firewall, so I think I'm stuck. >> > > Can you log in on the console? > > Do that and > > service SuSEFirewall2 stop > > (I may have the name or capitalization of the firewall service wrong, > but it's something close to that) > > Then you should be able to ssh in and fix stuff. > > Adam > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
