Hi,

There is are 3rd Script "SuSEfirewall2_final"

The firewall starts in 3 stages

1]init

Description: SuSEfirewall2_init does some basic setup and is the phase 1 of 3 of the SuSEfirewall initialization

2]setup

Description: SuSEfirewall2_setup does some basic setup and is the phase 2 of 3 of the SuSEfirewall initialization.

3]up and running

Description: SuSEfirewall2_final does finally set all the firewalling rules. Phase 3 of 3 of SuSEfirewall setup.

All 3 scripts call /sbin/SuSEfirewall2 with different parameters.

Okay, I think SuSE 9.3 does not really have the 3rd phase anymore since the script SuSEfirewall2_init and SuSEfirewall2_setup tell: ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: SuSEfirewall2_init # Required-Start: $local_fs boot.localnet # Required-Stop: # Should-Stop: $network # Default-Start: B # Default-Stop: # Short-Description: SuSEfirewall2 phase 1 # Description: SuSEfirewall2_init does some basic setup and is the # phase 1 of 2 of the SuSEfirewall initialization ### END INIT INFO and### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: SuSEfirewall2_setup # Required-Start: SuSEfirewall2_init $network $local_fs # Should-Start: $ALL # Required-Stop: $local_fs # X-UnitedLinux-Should-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Short-Description: SuSEfirewall2 phase 2 # Description: SuSEfirewall2_setup does some basic setup and is the # phase 2 of 2 of the SuSEfirewall initialization. ### END INIT INFO # X-SuSE-Dep-Only I just wanted to add that. Here is a locate of the SuSE firewall scripts bash:/etc # locate SuSEfirewall2_ /etc/init.d/boot.d/K11SuSEfirewall2_init /etc/init.d/boot.d/S11SuSEfirewall2_init /etc/init.d/rc3.d/K01SuSEfirewall2_setup /etc/init.d/rc3.d/S21SuSEfirewall2_setup /etc/init.d/rc4.d/K01SuSEfirewall2_setup /etc/init.d/rc4.d/S21SuSEfirewall2_setup /etc/init.d/rc5.d/K01SuSEfirewall2_setup /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21SuSEfirewall2_setup /etc/init.d/SuSEfirewall2_init /etc/init.d/SuSEfirewall2_setup /etc/preload.d/SuSEfirewall2_final /etc/preload.d/SuSEfirewall2_init /etc/preload.d/SuSEfirewall2_setup /lib/scpm/resource_types/service/status/SuSEfirewall2_final /lib/scpm/resource_types/service/status/SuSEfirewall2_init There is just one SuSEfirewall2_final entry displayed which even calls the SuSEfirewall2_setup script. I can't find any reason to have this file? Does somebody do? Regards, Robert.