Hi,
But Firehol is complaining when I boot up that some config file or other that it uses is not yet configured. I don't have time to read the message properly as it flashes past, but it is marked as an error during the booting process.
Can you maybe find that message in /var/log/syslog or somewhere in /var/log/ or dmesg?
I really don't anything about firewalls but if I correct understud what I was read on the net Firehol corresponding with iptables.So it looks as tho' at least Firehol is trying to do something. Could this therefore be the problem? As I say, my ignorance on the topic of firewalls is distressingly abysmal. :-( I am at a loss to know where to start or what to look at, or even what question to ask Google. I could obviously purge all of them and see if that solved the problem, but am afraid that purging them would not totally remove every trace, and therefore might make things worse. :-( And I still need to learn about firewalls. I would value, and be very grateful for, any advice on the best procedure to follow - or what FM to read - _before_ I manage to kybosh my entire system, rather than after. Thanks, Lisi
'iptables -L' will list all rules so maybe somebody from the list will notice something.
On this site http://pwet.fr/man/linux/administration_systeme/firehol is written: 'firehol stop' "Stops a running iptables firewall by running CW/etc/init.d/iptables stop. This will allow all traffic to pass unchecked."
So you can stop him and check is it problem in him or somewhere else. -- Bye, Goran Dobosevic Hrvatski: www.dobosevic.com English: www.dobosevic.com/en/ Registered Linux User #503414