My Computer Issues

One day in the computer aided future, they will call people like me functionally disabled. Whenever I touch a computer, there is problems. Here, I'll try to sort them out, and for me and, maybe, someone else write down what I did, and how.

Thursday, November 04, 2004

iptables (firewall) doesn't start after stopping it

The iptables firewall doesn't start up as it should after it is stopped:

[root@c-803070d5 root]# /etc/init.d/iptables stop
Resetting built-in chains to the default ACCEPT policy:         [  OK  ]
[root@c-803070d5 root]# /etc/init.d/iptables start

Further more the firewall is not represented as being up and running in the services list (Star > System > Config > Configure your system, system > services) in mandrake control panel.

However. The firewall DOES work unless it is stopped. Strrraange...

# posted by Hoakz @ 11:23 AM

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