On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 13:54, Nina Pham wrote: > hi, I put the log message into one of my iptables log rules. And it is > not happy about it and flush out everything. When I try to restart, or > restore, it complains about the log message and refuse to restore. How > do I get back that old iptables? Iptables now can't even run because of > that incorrect log message. > > Thanks Iptables was designed so if there was a rule(s) with an error(s) it still loads all good rules. So if you mess up a rule the rest will still work. Be forewarned though if a "valid bad rule such as; < iptables -I OUTPUT -s 0/0 -j reject > really gum up the works or leave a hole in your firewall. Also rule order can be very important. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
