Fully disabling firewall

[lhouk]

I'm trying to disable the system firewall in a shell script. I'm using the commands

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service iptables save
service iptables stop
chkconfig iptables off
service ip6tables save
service ip6tables stop
chkconfig ip6tables off

but when I then run

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system-config-firewall

it shows the firewall as still being active. Is there something else that system-config-firewall does when it disables the firewall, something I should add to my script? Thanks in advance to all who respond.

[avij]

Use "iptables -L -n -v" (and/or ip6tables) to show the status of your firewall. If the firewall is disabled, there are no firewall rules shown and the default policy for each of INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT is ACCEPT.