[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 15 May 2007 at 12:22, Tom Eastep wrote:
> 
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> I am not using LDAP. This has me completely puzzled. I guess I must
>>> be a talented fool. Over the past several years I have installed and
>>> run Shorewall on a couple dozen machines and never had any problem
>>> like this.
>> Have you tried tracing 'shorewall start' to see where it is hanging?
>>
> 
> Okay, I finally got a trace.
> 
> 
> .
> .
> .
> + echo 'Setting up SMURF control...'
> Setting up SMURF control...
> + do_log_rule_limit info smurfs smurfs DROP '' '' -A -s logmartians
> + local level=info
> + local chain=smurfs
> + local displayChain=smurfs
> + local disposition=DROP
> + local rulenum=
> + local limit=
> + local tag=
> + local command=
> + local prefix
> ++ chain_base smurfs
> ++ local c=smurfs
> ++ true
> ++ case $c in
> ++ echo smurfs
> ++ return
> + local base=smurfs
> + local pf
> + limit=
> + tag=
> + command=-A
> + shift 7
> + '[' -n '' -a -n '' ']'
> + '[' -n '' ']'
> ++ printf Shorewall:%s:%s: smurfs DROP
> + prefix=Shorewall:smurfs:DROP:
> + '[' 22 -gt 29 ']'
> + case $level in
> + /usr/sbin/iptables -A smurfs -s logmartians -j LOG --log-level info 
> --log-prefix Shorewall:smurfs:DROP:
> iptables v1.3.7: host/network `logmartians' not found
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
> + '[' 2 -ne 0 ']'
> + '[' -z '' ']'
> + stop_firewall
> + case $COMMAND in
> + set +x
> Processing /etc/shorewall/stop ...
> IP Forwarding Enabled
> Processing /etc/shorewall/stopped ...
> /sbin/shorewall: line 251:  6313 Terminated              
> ${VARDIR}/.start $debugging start
> 
> 
> After some investigation and experementing, I discovered that the 
> problem was a missing BROADCAST parameter in interfaces.

So in other words, the problem was nothing like you originally reported.
There was no hang -- 'shorewall start' was simply failing and the
firewall was being put in the 'stopped' state.

-Tom
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