Scott Murphy

So I just looked at a fresh Ubuntu 9 install on Rackspace and wanted to quickly enable http traffic. Being a CentOs / Redhat admin for 5 years, I went to type setup and nothing happened.

Setup is a nice UI program for configuring your Linux OS. I prefer this for simple tasks, rather than having to remember which files I need to edit and how to edit them.

Searching the net,
( http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Basic_Ubuntu_Linux_Firewall_Configur... )
I found that lokkit is a sub-program to the setup program I am familiar with so I installed it:
sudo yum install lokkit

and that I should get the same menu by typing
sudo lokkit

However, this apparently doesn't work anymore because nothing interactive happened. It expected me to pass parameters.

So I ran yum search system-config and came across this:
system-config-firewall-tui.noarch : A text interface for basic firewall setup

so I ran
sudo yum install system-config-firewall-tui.noarch

then I ran
sudo system-config-firewall-tui

And waala! I got my simple firewall UI. I then just hit the customize button, checked WWW (HTTP) as a trusted service, then hit the close button and ok button and I was done!