Re: [gentoo-user] iptables (not) started?

[Mick]

On Friday 29 Mar 2013 18:25:11 Jarry wrote:
> Hi Gentoo-users,
>
> I noticed one thing on my server: during boot-up no message
> about firewall being started is printed on console. I always
> have to check manually if iptables-rules have been loaded.
> Strange thing, when doing shutdown, I see messages I expect:
>
> * Saving iptables state ...                  [ ok ]
> * Stopping firewall ...                      [ ok ]
>
> I checked also /etc/init.d/iptables and I think it should
> show some messages at start:
>
> start() {
> checkconfig || return 1
> ebegin "Loading ${iptables_name} state and starting firewall"
> ${iptables_bin}-restore ${SAVE_RESTORE_OPTIONS} < "${iptables_save}"
> eend $?
> }
>
> Can someone explain to me why this message is not printed?

Do you have some other script starting your iptables, rather than the vanilla 
/etc/init.d/iptables?

Does '/etc/init.d/iptables status' show that it is running?
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Regards,
Mick