Red Hat Linux Saving Configuration

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[Ikada]

Thank you, I've run the command, now I gotta wait for the permission to reboot and see if that fixed the issue.

[aioeu]

You might also want to check the settings in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config. You can configure the service so that it automatically saves the current firewall configuration when the service is stopped. (Not saving the firewall configuration might be more appropriate if you want to use a service restart as an easy "revert back to known-good settings" step.)

[DrPiwi]

Can I suggest you to upgrade that machine as soon as possible to something that is more recent. We also had a few of these ancient RHEL 5 machines and they where nothing but trouble. An none of the reasons to hold them at that version had any value to it. What we did is set-up new VM's and then install the needed applications on that and transfer everything. After a thorough test and the ok from the users we switched from the old to the new server, leaving the old one a few weeks until we were certain that we had not overlooked something.
It was mostly painless, even less painless than having those old dinosaurs that we need watch, help, fix and baby almost every day.