On Sunday 01 September 2002 09:51 am, Anders Akesson wrote:
> > > Nothing happens.. Command isn't executed.
> > > Normally (I think) a 'shorewall restart' should result in an output
>
> like
>
> > > the one at startup, but no output is seen, and no error message is
> > > presented. A restart takes a few seconds but 'shorewall restart'
>
> behaves
>
> > > as if there was nothing to execute?.. in other words: Nothing
>
> happens..
>
> > > The firewall is running as before, but no restart is made.
> >
> > type "which shorewall" and be sure that the response is
>
> "/sbin/shorewall".
>
> > Now
> > "sh -x shorewall restart 2> /tmp/trace" and look at the "/tmp/trace"
>
> file
>
> > to
> > see if you can understand what's happening.
>
> The trace gave:
>
> [root@firewall] /root # which shorewall
> /sbin/shorewall
> [root@firewall] /root # sh -x shorewall restart 2> /tmp/trace
> [root@firewall] /root # cd /tmp/
> [root@firewall] /tmp # cat trace
> shorewall: Can't open shorewall
> [root@firewall] /tmp #
>
> This doesn't help me much. Looking in the shorewall script, I think I
> can narrow the problem to : (these are the commands that "fail")
>
> case "$1" in
>     start|stop|restart|reset|clear|refresh|check)
>         [ $# -ne 1 ] && usage 1
>         exec $firewall $debugging $nolock $1
>         ;;
>

What does "ls -l /var/lib/shorewall" show? What does "ls -ld 
/var/lib/shorewall" show?

-Tom
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