On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Charles Campbell wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm pretty sure that I'm running into a security blockade.  I have
> several small example sockets programs which have compiled and worked in
> the past on other platforms.  However, they are not working under SL
> 6.3, even when I change ports multiple times.
>
> I have:
>
>   * disabled SELINUX  (I first tried setenforce 0 as root to make it
> simply permissive, but no luck, so I disabled it instead)
>   * turned iptables off:  /etc/init.d/iptables stop
>
> Still, after having done both of these, I can't get a simple socket and
> client example to work.  The /var/log/messages file simply shows my
> shutting off of iptables.
>
> Is there another thing that I can do to get some simple sockets examples
> to work?   I figure once I have located the problems, I can begin to
> attack the rules needed to get it to work.
>
> Regards, and thank you,
> Chip Campbell
>

What does not work about them?  What port numbers are you using?  Running 
as what user?

-Connie Sieh