IPTables won't start

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Thu Jan 19 22:29:10 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:35, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Chris Norman <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > The subject says it all really. I can't get IPTables to start.
> >
> > Neither the command "service iptables start" or "/etc/init.d/iptables
> > start"
> > does anything.
> >
> > Can anyone help please?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris Norman
> > <!-- chris.norman4 at ntlworld.com -->
>
> To my knowledge, iptables is not a service, but a part of the kernel. Why
> do you think that it is not working?
>
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> As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.
Iptables is a separate program with the executable in /sbin or /usr/sbin. You 
will find an init script in /etc/init.d. If you look at it you will see the 
prerequisite start, stop, restart, and status.
The reasons iptables will not start are the same as any other daemon or 
program;
1) bad script starting it 
2) Bad rule set
3) location of executable not where expected, corrupt, or not installed.
4) myriad of others reasons.

Try these
1) rpm -qv iptables
2) yum install iptables (or download the proper rpm and manually refresh or 
install) rpm -Uvh iptables*.rpm




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