Re: [Hampshire] opening ports on local host fedora core 6

drystan mazur wrote:
> Sean Gibbins wrote:
>
>> drystan mazur wrote:
>>
>>> Hello I am trying to get TOR to run on my Fedora core 6 i386 laptop.
>>> Now reading the gudie it says that ports localhost 8118 and 9050 need
>>> to be open. However nmap indicates that they are closed. How do I go
>>> about opening up local host ports ?
>>>
>>> Many Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> As root run system-config-securitylevel for access to your firewall
>> settings at a guess - I have an FC6 install here, but don't use that
>> functionality. It looks like you can add in ports to trust from the
>> 'other ports' dialogue.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
> Hi tried that seems to open external ports rather than local host ones
>

Diving down further into guess territory now, but how about disabling
the firewall and making SELinux permissive (or disabled) to see if
either of those are the culprit?

Sean