"JBG" == Jóhann B Guðmundsson johannbg@hi.is writes:
JBG> Any thoughts on implementing automatically port opening for JBG> service that need to open port access in the firewall as in when JBG> service is started that needs port opening it would automatically JBG> read some firewall.conf file for that and open the port JBG> automatically according to those settings in the firewall.conf JBG> file ( add the iptables rules automatically when the service is JBG> started and remove those rules when the service is stopped )
This functionality is available already. You invoke it by doing service iptables stop or rpm -e iptables.
/Benny