Simon Matter wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Third letter (sorry my free mail provider) >> So .. >> .. my box: FC5 with Shorewall-3.4.4-7 (standalone web server) >> >> My problem: >> >> I want to start shorewall and following ERROR show up: >> >> /sbin/shorewall: line 364: /var/lib/shorewall/.start: permission denied > > What are the permissions of /var/lib/shorewall/.start? And are you > starting shorewall as root? > > Simon > >> Next probe, the ERROR message following: >> >> ERROR: /var/lib/shorewall/.start exists and is not a restore file >> /sbin/shorewall: line 320: 16164 ... $command $SHOREWALL_SHELL $sc $@ >>
As Simon's question suggests, the problem here is that the .start file is
not getting execute permission. Assuming that you are not running the
shorewall-perl compiler, then this is the command that the compiler uses:
chmod 700 $outfile
Are you also seeing any error messages about "chmod" failing?
-Tom
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