On Sunday 19 March 2006 18:18, Chris Norman wrote: >Hi people, >I am running a server in college at the minute. I just re installed it >because (amoungst other things), IPTables wasn't doing anything. Now I > have exactly the same iptables problem. > >If I do: >service iptables start > >I just get returned to the prompt, the same with /etc/init.d/iptables > start. > >Why am I getting no output, how can I get iptables to start please? > >Cheers, If there are no errors in the rules, starting iptables is silent. If you want to see the rules in effect, use the command "iptables -L" >Chris Norman ><!-- chris.norman4@xxxxxxxxxxxx --> -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.