messed up firewall

[robocop50000]

Hi All,
Here I am again: yesterday i started touching the firewall under webmin, to secure my system more. The issue is that I think I cut the branch I was sitting on, and now i can no longer access my server using webmin. I can access freepbx tough.
My endpoints also no longer register.

Is there an easy way to by-pass this? I have been reading trough the posts but couldn't figure out how to get out of that mess I created.

Thinking about restaging the whole thing....

Any help would be appreciated..
Best regards

PS: I have already tried to stop iptables using the script, but this doesn't seem to be stopping anything as the status still show iptables "active"

 

[Boolah]

If your firewall is disabled and you still can't get into Webmin, have you checked to make sure Webmin is running? What's the output of the following command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin status

 

[robocop50000]

I get :
root@pbx:~ $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin status
webmin (pid 6699) is running
root@pbx:~ $

but strange that iptables still show 'on line' even after I run 'disable-iptables' ??

To me this is something to do with me touching the firewall. Any direct way to stop the firewall service?

 

[Boolah]

Any direct way to stop the firewall service?

Yup - just do:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop

That ought to shut it down completely. To start it back up, do:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables start

 

[robocop50000]

Thank you, this solved it: i could then login to webmin: thanks for the support. However don't the script 'disable-iptables' do the same? Looks like it didn't work for me....

But thank you very much for your support

 

[Boolah]

Actually, disable-iptables looks like it just disables iptables from starting automaticaly at boot time (someone correct me if I'm wrong), and doesn't actually stop iptables if it's currently running.