db wrote:

>For reasons to long to describe, I must run Redhat 5.2 as one boot along
>with Mandrake 8.2 on another.  When the machine is booted to Redhat 5.2
>there is no need for network connectivity and I am worried about it getting
>hacked.  Making it secure with a firewall/etc would probably be difficult in
>any case and since I can't depend on people to unplug the machine at that
>point, I would like to lock up /shut off 5.2's network connectivity without
>having to reinstall it.
>Can anyone tell me how?
>
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Well, you should have SysVinit available in RH 5.2  Call it up in 
graphical mode and shutdown network.  If you really need sockets as in 
KDE or GNOME which I do not believe were available in RH 5.2, then open 
it, but set local only--in other words, put

ifdown eth0

(and any other network interfaces except lo)

in the script /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Civileme



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