On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 10:44 +0000, Thibaut Lassalle wrote: > it didn't work but i found the solution : > cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables > iptables-restore There's a /sbin/iptables-restore command, but it and the man file for it, are the only files with "iptables-restore" on my system. Surely you're not catting a file over the top of a command?