How To Enable Firewall ports through command lines in linux

Test Environment redhat 5.4, enabling ports 3306 and 8080

Modify the iptables file in/etc/sysconfig:

# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
* Filter
: Input accept [0: 0]
: Forward accept [0: 0]
: Output accept [0: 0]
: RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-[0: 0]
-A input-j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A forward-j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-I lo-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-p icmp -- icmp-type any-j ACCEPT
-An RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-p 50-j ACCEPT
-An RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-p 51-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-p udp -- dport 5353-d 224.0.0.20.- j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-p udp-m udp -- dport 631-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-p tcp-m tcp -- dport 631-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-m state -- state ESTABLISHED, RELATED-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-m state -- state NEW-m tcp-p tcp -- dport 21-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-m state -- state NEW-m tcp-p tcp -- dport 22-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-m state -- state NEW-m tcp-p tcp -- dport 80-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-m state -- state NEW-m tcp-p tcp -- dport 443-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-m state -- state NEW-m tcp-p tcp -- dport 8080-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-m state -- state NEW-m tcp-p tcp -- dport 3306-j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT-j REJECT -- reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT

Restart iptables

[Root @ localhost/] #/sbin/service iptables restart