I am having trouble starting iptables in Mandrake 8.0.
When I boot up or otherwise attempt to start iptables,
I get an error message that:
/sbin/iptables-restore: invalid option -- p
/sbin/iptables-restore: invalid option -- f
When I look at the start section of rc3.d/S08iptables I see the following main line:
grep -v "^[[:space:]]*#" $IPTABLES_CONFIG | grep -v '^[[:space:]]*$' |
/sbin/iptables-restore -p -f && \
success "Applying iptables firewall rules" || \
failure "Applying iptables firewall rules"
The first two lines are one but Agent has wrapped them.
The thing to note is that /sbin/iptables-restore is being invoked with the options -p
and -f.
However, iptables-restore -h gives no such options.
The script is basically the same in this respect in all rcX.d.
I installed iptables from DrakConf which downloaded and installed iptables version
1.2.1-4mdk.
I have not found a later version.
I can't see why the startup script should call iptables-restore with non-existant
parameters unless there was some kind of version mixup.
Any idea what's wrong?
Thanks Larry Alkoff N2LA
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
