hi Alexander iptables is disabled. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 11:03 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: The connection was refused when attempting to contacthostname:5500 Am Do, den 07.07.2005 schrieb Joeffrey Betita um 12:38: > i successfully installed oracle 10g on Fedora Core 3 i can login at > http://hostname:5500/em but after restarting the PC all i get is "The > connection was refused when attempting to contact hostname:5500" thank you > very much for your help. > Joeffrey This means either the service is not running which should listen on port 5500 or a firewall like iptables rules are rejecting the attempt. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 17:02:06 up 11 days, 23:54, load average: 0.08, 0.15, 0.13