On Monday 17 July 2006 16:36, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On 2006 July 17 12:52, Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas wrote: > > Firewall was down! ;-(
Oops! I thought it as down! You are absolutely right! THANK YOU, Ron! I had to shutdown both services! Now guess what? I found a brand new problem! As soon the connection happens...... "X" (KDE).... freezes! What the heck is going? 8-/ The "freezing" is not only with vnc connections... some apps like k3b (the champion at the moment!) freezes "X" (kde, icewn, flubox) > How did you check that it's down? Did you check the shorewall service, or > the iptables service? Also, did you check in mcc, or with the service > command, or something more primitive like ps? > > My understanding (which could be wrong) is that the shorewall service can > be down, and you're still firewalled if iptables is up. iptables is the > actual firewall service. shorewall is one of a number of iptables > configuration services (because raw iptables configuration is tricky). > > Also, my mcc -> System -> Services claims that iptables is down, but the > command "service iptables status" tells me that it is up. This seems to be > a long-standing mcc bug (at least since 10.1, if not earlier). I suspect > that mcc is just calling the service command and parsing the output, but > because the iptables status spits out a whole list of configuration info > instead of a simple "iptables (pid ...) is running" like most services, it > gets confused and assumes the service is down. > > If you want to be sure your firewall is down, do the following as root: > > service shorewall stop > service iptables stop > > Ron -- In Lak'ech! - Mitakuye Oyasin ========================================================== Linux user # 102240 => PGP: 49672F35 => http://www.queromaisbrasil.com.br/ ========================================================== Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:46:00 -0300 23:46:00 up 4:09, 2 users, load average: 0.28, 0.34, 0.35 A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it? ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
