[K12OSN] firestarter permission fail
Gavin Chester
sales at ecosolutions.com.au
Sat Apr 2 14:34:41 UTC 2005
Displaying my ignorance of permissions problems here in trying to work
out why firestarter won't (fire)start :-)
I noticed for the fist time since installing v4.2.0 a few weeks ago (as
a dual-purpose server/workstation) that among the startup messages was
the news that firestarter firewall was failing at bootup because of
permissions. What is the name of the log file that lists services
started? I wrongly thought it was dmesg and no other log file I checked
shows the current boot (booted just 6hrs ago)
I took a look at the /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh file and found it was
owned by root, group root. I took the plunge and chown it to gavin,
group root (see below) but that didn't seem to do the trick when I tried
starting it from the CLI. These transactions are listed below if anyone
can give me pointers on where to tackle this issue. I don't suppose I
have firewall running since it fails on permissions, and I've become
paranoid since repeated attempts at breakin recently via ssh (I've shut
down sshd since I don't use it).
[root at local ~]# chown -v gavin /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh
changed ownership of `/etc/firestarter/firewall.sh' to gavin
[root at local ~]# ls -l /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 gavin root 0 May 18 2004 /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh
[root at local ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/firestarter start
Flushing all current rules and user defined chains: [ OK ]
Clearing all current rules and user defined chains: [ OK ]
Zeroing all current rules: [ OK ]
Applying Firestarter configuration: /etc/rc.d/init.d/firestarter: line
39: /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh: Permission denied
[FAILED]
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Regards,
Gavin Chester
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