Sorry Tom The symptom was caused by a local issue with DNS not working in my build environment.
safe-restart is Lightning fast now that root cause has been resolved. -Trent -----Original Message----- From: Tom Eastep [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 16 June 2010 11:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Shorewall-users] [SPAM] Re: When starting a firewall setup... On 6/15/10 6:16 PM, Trent O'Callaghan wrote: > Hi Tom, > > For comparison I have attached the requested 'sh -x /sbin/shorewall > safe-restart 2> trace ' as trace-safe.txt And 'sh -x /sbin/shorewall > restart 2> trace-ok' as trace-ok.txt for comparison. > > The process wait during safe-restart (150 seconds) is occurring > during; > + awk BEGIN { sline=""; };\ > /^-j/ { print sline $0; next };\ > /-m policy.*-j/ { print $0; next };\ > /-m policy/ { sline=$0; next };\ > /--mask ff/ { sub( /--mask ff/, "--mask 0xff" ) };\ > { print ; sline="" } You apparently possess insight which I lack; the above invocation of 'awk' is part of a pipeline of two commands; from the source: do_save() { local status status=0 if [ -f ${VARDIR}/firewall ]; then if $iptables_save | iptablesbug > ${VARDIR}/restore-$$; then cp -f ${VARDIR}/firewall $g_restorepath mv -f ${VARDIR}/restore-$$ ${g_restorepath}-iptables chmod +x $g_restorepath echo " Currently-running Configuration Saved to $g_restorepath" The 'awk' command ia the active statement in 'iptablesbug (if awk isn't installed, iptablesbug runs 'cat'). So it is still not obvious why your system produces the awkward pause (pun intended :-) ). Does 'shorewall save' show a similar pause on your system? -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
