On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:33:23 +0000, Doug Holtz NOSPAM in adress wrote:

>
> Thanks for the update. When I ran rpm -e ipchains I get a notice that it
> depends on lokkit and can't continue.
>
> I ran sysconfig --list and see ipchains and iptables.
>
> Maybe I will learn something as I sift thru inittab, etc.
>
> Doug

Doug,

If your ipchains depends on lokit then you probably need to disable lokit
before you can disable ipchains (although I suppose it might be possible
to _disable_ ipchains without bothering with lokit, IDK). Not sure if
lokit will show up in chkconfig or not, as I never used it. You _do_ need
to disable ipchains before you can enable iptables. Those two things would
normally be best and most easily done with chkconfig. You really do not
_need_ _to_ erase anything from the disk so long as the scripts are
pointed at the right places.

Depending on your network connection and your firewall rules, you may need
to have your network (PPPoE and DHCP?) up before your NETFILTER iptables
script can run. Many scripts will need to know the IP address before they
will run. Going through the init stuff manually is a real pain and you're
better off to use the provided utilities if they will do what you need.
They (chkconfig especially) were written for good reasons.