Hi Frieder!
The problem is that I need to access the console of the server (either to stop the firewall or to reboot it) before I can SSH into the box.
Hm, I'm not quite sure if I fully understand the problem. Sounds like the firewall is disabled, but not stopped, so either stopping it manually or rebooting the server stops it. Had that once, when I missed the start_firewall part and only had enable_firewall set to false. As far as I can see from /var/log/YaST2/y2log on a newly installed server the firewall is disabled and stopped very early. This happens while our server still has its DHCP-based IP configuration (static IP is configured via ask-list in the initial stage). What we have in addition to the firewall section is <firewall>no</firewall> for each network interface, perhaps this is something you might want to check. But anyway, on our servers SuSEfirewall2 is completely disabled and inactive after auto-install. Maybe your whole <firewall> section is in the wrong level of autoyast.xml... Ours is between <profile></profile> and not in <general> or anywhere else. Greetz, Zimo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org