Hello, maybe I got this malfunction by chance but I will report it anyway - perhaps someone else got hit. During a recent update of my Suse9.2 (within the last 3-4 weeks) my sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 config file got modified in a bad way. The cause was a multiline configuration entry with "\" to span to the next line(s). After the first multiline, there where repetitions of comments which where harmless to single-line entries, but disrupted the first - and any subsequent multiline-entries thereafter. I did not recognize the problem at once (its my home box - I am rather lazy about it and don't scan the message logs every day :-) - so I cannot refer exactly which update caused the problem - but I found that my firewall did no longer work as intended which pointed me to the problem. Greetings Bernd