[CentOS] Start scripts ordering

Phil Savoie psavoie1783 at rogers.com
Sat Nov 26 15:48:27 UTC 2005


On Saturday 26 November 2005 10:34, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:25 -0500, Phil Savoie wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Was wondering if you could help me out.  At work we are running CentOS
> > 4.2 as our mailserver/firewall.  The script in question is 
> > /etc/rc3.d/S08iptables. As this starts before the network adapters are
> > set up, it hoses our iptables script resulting in denying our internal
> > hosts internet access.
> >
> > What I would like to do is mv the script to /etc/rc3.d/S11iptables so the
> > the interfaces are up and then the iptables script kicks in.  It is in
> > this way that we find it works best for us.
> >
> > However on a reboot we found that the "system" moved the script back to
> > it's original name of  /etc/rc3.d/S08iptables.
> >
> > How would I "tell the system" to keep the script named
> > as /etc/rc3.d/S11iptables so that it does not automatically rename it
> > back to /etc/rc3.d/S08iptables?
>
> Edit the chkconfig line in /etc/init.d/iptables to read 11 instead of
> 08, then run:
>
> chkconfig iptables reset

Roger that!  Thank you.

Phil



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