This error indicates that the ''[[:cmd:iseq]]'' command has compared two strings and found them to be not equal. When using the ''[[:cmd:iseq]]'' command, you should always use the ''||'' operator to handle the case when the two strings are not equal. For example: iseq ${answer} Y && goto is_correct || On Centos7 try disabling the firewall: systemctl stop firewalld.service