Node.js install and firewall changes

Installed node.js on Tempest using the directions here

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation

and the directions in the README file in the source tarball, available here:

http://nodejs.org/download/

By default, it installs into /usr/local/bin/node and /usr/local/lib/node_modules and /usr/local/lib/dtrace.

So that I could play with it, I opened up a port in the firewall.  The port will not, I think, be available from off-campus, due to the campus firewall. To open up the port, I did:

system-config-firewall

I went to “Other Ports,” clicked on “add,” clicked on “user defined” and put in the port number I wanted to open.  Then I clicked on “apply” and confirmed.

I ran my node.js server and used netstat to show that it was listening:

netstat -t –listen –program