Re: SuSe 9.1 startup issue

Tom Eastep
2004-12-18T15:56:52Z

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 07:53 -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 03:27 -0500, Greg Shepherd wrote:

>
> Two posibilities:
>
> a) You have changed your Shorewall configuration since you last did a
> ''shorewall save'' and you are getting your old rules
restored.
> b) You haven''t disabled startup of SuSEfirewall2 and it is
starting
> after Shorewall.

There''s a third possibility -- ''shorewall start'' is
failing during boot
because something required by your configuration isn''t available at
boot
time (DHCP-managed interface isn''t up and configured yet possibly).
This
can also be overcome by using ''shorewall save''.