On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 06:48 +0000, Andrew Silverman wrote: > I am setting up a shorewall6-only config to firewall my HE tunnel. The > system is a CentOS 6.0 VM (running on Hyper-V but that's not the problem > here.) > > Shorewall6 runs just fine when I "su" and then launch it manually with > "shorewall6 start" - no problems, everything behaves exactly as intended, and > all the firewall behavior is exactly as I want it to be. So with all that > initial config taken care of (much experimentation required) I moved on to > trying to get it to start at boot automatically. > > However, when I try to launch it instead by putting shorewall6 start into > /etc/rc.d/rc.local, it fails, and the log only shows me this: > > [root@ipv6tunl log]# more shorewall6-init.log > Jul 30 23:38:10 Processing /etc/shorewall6/params ... > Jul 30 23:38:10 ERROR: Processing of /etc/shorewall6/params failed > > And that's it - nothing else in the log. I tried changing the start line to > do tracing to /tmp/trace, but the trace came up empty, so at the moment I am > clueless as to why it won't start properly at boot time. > > FYI, the reason I'm starting it this way rather than by chkconfig is so that > I can force a few ip commands to complete first to configure the HE 6in4 > tunnel first before starting the firewall that relies on the tunnel being > running. > > Totally open to suggestions, or what more troubleshooting/logging I can > provide - NOT a Linux expert, but learning fast.
What are the contents of /etc/shorewall6/params? -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 \________________________________________________
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