Hi all, I have my firewall up and running thanks to the firewall2.pdf i found in the list a few days ago ;) But I still have a question : When I boot the box it has: firewall step 1 initialization some services firewall step 2 setup some other services firewall step 3 final named,squid service I get the message : WARNING : NO DNS RUNNING, SQUIDSERVER RUNNING ALTHOUGH STATED IN SuSEfirewall2 file. off course this is normal because they only start up AFTER the final script. So I looked in my folders and did this : I believe the firewall had : S11 or something like that and the named and squid this : S13Named S18Squid So I altered the numbers to 10 for both of them. right after Squid starts up the third script of the firewall runs and still tells me there is no squid server running althoughj stated in configfile. Questions I had : 1. Is it safe to change the startup sequence like that for security reasons ? 2. If the script is parsed and doesn't find the servers, are the ports then open or are they closed out of security and do they stay closed ? 3. Can I safely put SuSEfirewall2_final to S99 ? Thanks in advance regards Chris FitzGerald Datacenter Supervisor Belgium