IPTables and kickstart %post

[Matt Rose]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Stuart Browne wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a number of (in-house) RPM packages that I want installed 
> during a kickstart build (no problem's there), but they add iptables 
> rules in order to allow specific services in.
>
> During the kickstart under RHEL5, the iptables modules are not available 
> for usage so the usual rule manipulation commands aren't available. 
> Modifying the '/etc/sysconfig/iptables' file doesn't work well either 
> given that these packages are also installed on running systems.
>

It sounds like you need to add the requirement for the iptables modules and 
/etc/sysconfig/iptables to the in-house RPMs you've created.  This way, 
the RPM transaction will take the requirement into account.

Matt

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