[lug] startup problem

[Chris Wade]

Thanks.  It is being called as a runlevel startup item, S01 in fact...

I'll fix it when I can get home and sit in front of the console... :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Brown [mailto:hugh at vecna.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:56 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] startup problem
> 
> 
> A lot depends on how things are being called.  If the 
> firewall is being
> called as a runlevel startup item (e.g. S12firewall in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
> then it is sufficient to rename it to S**firewall where the ** is a
> number bigger than the number for network.
> 
> If it is being called out of /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit then you 
> need to make
> sure that the network stuff gets called before the firewall stuff.
> 
> An informative process is to trace the startup process from
> /etc/inittab. 
> 
> Hugh
> 
> On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 02:59, Chris Wade wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've been able to workaround this problem but I'm curious 
> why it's happening
> > in the first place.
> > 
> > I've configured SuSEfirewall to do IP masquerading, the 
> first time I started
> > it up it worked, and when I rebooted it worked fine.
> > 
> > Tonight I played with some of the settings, and later when 
> I rebooted the
> > firewall wouldn't start.  I put everything back the way it 
> was, tried
> > rebooting again, still wouldn't start.  Watching the 
> messages go by during
> > startup, it appeared that the firewall was trying to start 
> before the eth
> > cards were started, so it couldn't find the cards, so it 
> gave errors.  I
> > don't know where to find the log of the startup, maybe if 
> someone could tell
> > me where this is I could post it.
> > 
> > Why would the order of devices have changed during startup? 
>  Nothing that I
> > know of that would have affected it changed between last 
> reboot and this
> > one; the only thang that changed was the firewall config 
> script, and if I
> > set START_FW to 'no' in rc.config and start the firewall 
> manually after boot
> > it works fine.
> > 
> > Learning, learning...
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chris
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