On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 09:51 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Maybe you are right, that it is a Firewall problem. Here is a line from my /var/log/boot.msg file:
"Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 1 of 2) SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled."
I take it that is from the problem system? I don't think you should be seeing this if the firewall is really turned off. Is that from a recent boot? I don't know anything about the firewall (I just make sure it is off :) Perhaps somebody else knows how to be sure it's turned off properly.
I'm writing this on my ok susebox, and here's there is no information on the Firewall in the boot.msg file.
That's what I'd expect, and none in the messages file either.
The xinetd is not started, and cannot be. I do the Firewall and xinetd start/stop from the Yast System System Services.
I take it these comments refer to the problem system? So you're saying that if you type
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998