'Twas brillig, and Richard Couture at 30/10/12 21:33 did gyre and gimble: > I am teaching a class on administration of GNU & Linux using Mageia 2 at > one of the State of Jalisco's offices and while teaching iptables I > noted that reload no longer is supported with this service. > > I have always used it in the past to avoid disconnecting people with > restart if whatever changes I made to the tables were not relevant to > their connection. > > Has something changed in iptables/netfilter where restart works like > reload used to work, or have we lost some functionality?
Well, traditionally, the "reload" operation has not generally been supported on singleshot services (which iptables.service is), however, a patch was recently committed upstream which I suspect you will like: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=2abba39d759bacebd7461f7370bb108f48dcce92 This is now available in cauldron, but the iptables.service file needs to be updated to include the correct line in the unit: ExecReload=/usr/lib64/iptables.init reload I'll make a note to update the iptables package (but someone is welcome to beat me to it). Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
