[CentOS] iptables package issue

Ned Slider ned at unixmail.co.uk
Fri Apr 8 19:56:48 UTC 2011


On 08/04/11 19:49, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> I just did a test install off a netinstall iso to a mirror repo which left
> no /etc/sysconfig/iptables file in place.
>
> So a quick check:
> # yum whatprovides /etc/sysconfig/iptables --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=base --enablerepo=updates --disableplugin=\*
> No Matches found
>
> Without that file iptables doesn't start as per the init script. Anyone
> know what may be awry?
>
> Thanks,
> jlc
>

/etc/sysconfig/iptables is created or owned by any package, it's created 
by running the iptables-save command. Try running iptables-save.




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