On Wednesday 18 January 2006 03:35, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 1/18/06, Chris Norman <cnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx --> > > To my knowledge, iptables is not a service, but a part of the kernel. Why > do you think that it is not working? > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- > 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
