Fedora workstation: what do we want installed by default?

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Tue, 2014-08-19 at 09:27 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> On 19 Aug 2014 08:35, "Mathieu Bridon" <bochecha at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 21:09 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> > > I'm running PostgreSQL on my box, and need to have some VMs I run
> > > connect to it. I'd not propose that port 5432 was open by default
> > > though.
> >
> > As Elad said in the email you replied to:
> >
> > >> Right now in the firewalld policy in Fedora Workstation any
> > >> non-root port is unblocked by default.
> >
> > I haven't checked yet, but to me that means that port 5432 is open
> by
> > default.
> 
> Duh! Yes, of course; I wasn't thinking.
> 
> The reason that example was in my mind is that very day I ran into the
> problem of a VM being unable to connect via port 5432. Admittedly I'd
> had to start postgresql manually (using systemctl) owing to a stale
> lock file, might that have made a difference? The port definitely
> wasn't open.

Having them open is the behaviour on Fedora 21, and it's a relatively
new behaviour there.

Did you observe the port being closed on earlier Fedora releases?


-- 
Mathieu