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

[Mick]

On Friday 29 Mar 2013 19:03:57 Jarry wrote:
> On 29-Mar-13 19:43, Mick wrote:
> > 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?
>
> No.
>
> > Does '/etc/init.d/iptables status' show that it is running?
>
> * status: started
>
> I recorded screen with my video-camera to be sure I did not miss
> some message. But I found no trace about iptables being started...

I have not set rc_logger in /etc/conf.d/iptables to know if it would make a 
difference and can confirm that I can clearly see it on my boxen at boot time:

  * Loading iptables state and starting firewall ...			[ ok ]


Another thing to check is that it is in the default level:

$ eselect rc list | grep iptables
  iptables    		default

I'm not sure if it would show up, or the message be suppressed if you add it 
to the boot level.

-- 
Regards,
Mick