30 Aug
2011
30 Aug
'11
7:08 p.m.
In setting up my new CentOS 6 laptop, I replaced /etc/sysconfig/iptables with my own, very restrictive version. I then tried to restart the iptables daemon, but it reported that my new iptables was unreadable. On a guess, I disabled selinux, and my problem was solved. Later, I re-enabled selinux and on reboot, it had to go through a very long setup procedure.
Is there something better I could have done when replacing iptables, so that I would not have to disable selinux?
Thanks for your help. Mike.