Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour of iptables

[Matthias Hanft <mh@hanft.de>]

Matt Connell schrieb:
> 
> I noticed that your path to iptables is in /usr/bin/, but `which` on my
> system says /sbin/.  Are you running this as root?  What version of PHP
> are you using?

Yes, everything is run as root. Indeed I had /sbin/iptables in my PHP script.
Getting this error, I tried "which iptables" in a root bash which showed
/usr/bin/iptables. So I changed this (and even to "/usr/bin/iptables-legacy",
but with no effect, presumably because of...

n ~ # ls -l /sbin/iptables
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 18  2024 /sbin/iptables -> xtables-legacy-multi
n ~ # ls -l /usr/bin/iptables
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 18  2024 /usr/bin/iptables -> xtables-legacy-multi
n ~ # ls -l /usr/bin/iptables-legacy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 21 09:30 /usr/bin/iptables-legacy -> xtables-legacy-multi

So everything seems to call "xtables-legacy-multi" anyway.

Your "foo.php" does run here, too.  I wonder what's the difference?! PHP is 8.2.24.

The only difference is that my "exec" is in a class method in a PHP file
which is included by "require_once".  And it has worked for years... don't
know exactly when it got broken ("cron @monthly" to count monthly IP traffic).

-Matt