Re: /etc/sysconfig/iptables does not load on reboot

[Navneet Choudhary <navneetkc@gmail.com>]

On 7/2/05, David Leangen <dleangen@canada.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks again for the follow up...
> 
> > and may be its due some core level probs not due to any
> > misconfiguration or sort of things like that. may be the problem
> > lies in the package.
> 
> Sounds like this may be a good guess. I installed a second FC3 system, and
> I'm not having that problem at all. Everything is working just fine on the
> second system, including the default iptables installation. I really can't
> figure out why it works on one machine, but not the other...

Hey, if want to debug further! 
Why don't you call your iptables rule via  /etc/rc.local

eg.
vi /etc/rc.local
iptables-restore < /root/firewall [Your own iptables rule set which
you wants to inforce on your system]

lets see whats happen now?

 
> I'll try a fresh install and see what happens.
> 
> 
> Thanks again for the advice.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tahmeed [mailto:qs.tahmeed@gmail.com]
> > Sent: 2 July 2005 16:35
> > To: dleangen@canada.com
> > Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
> > Subject: Re: /etc/sysconfig/iptables does not load on reboot
> >
> >
> > hello,
> >
> > this is what u should see if iptables starts up successfully during
> > reboot - at least
> >
> > Jul  2 13:00:45 gizmo rc: Starting iptables:  succeeded
> >
> > and may be its due some core level probs not due to any
> > misconfiguration or sort of things like that. may be the problem lies
> > in the package.
> >
> > if its possible pls download a fresh package of iptables from
> >
> > www.netfilter.org
> >
> > regards........
> >
> >
> > On 7/2/05, David Leangen <dleangen@canada.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, in that case, I have no idea. Did you check the startup logs?
> > > > Does the system display [ OK ] on the iptables line when booting?
> > >
> > > Yep, the system displays [ OK ] and I don't see anything of
> > interest in the
> > > logs. That's exactly why I can't figure this out. If at least there
> were
> > > some info in the logs, that would at least point me in some direction.
> > > Unless, of course, I'm looking in the wrong place...
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Alexey Toptygin [mailto:alexeyt@freeshell.org]
> > > > Sent: 2 July 2005 15:39
> > > > To: David Leangen
> > > > Subject: RE: /etc/sysconfig/iptables does not load on reboot
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, David Leangen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > [root@sannomiya ~]# chkconfig --list iptables
> > > > > iptables        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on
> > 5:on    6:off
> > > > >
> > > > > My /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables script is the default script installed
> > > with
> > > > > FC3.
> > > >
> > > > Well, in that case, I have no idea. Did you check the startup
> > logs? Does
> > > > the system display [ OK ] on the iptables line when booting?
> > > >
> > > >  			Alexey
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Happy! If not now never
> 
> 
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