Hi! When the init script SuSEfirewall_setup fails, it just writes out a red "failed" and terminates. If you boot up your machine in runlevel 5 and do not closely watch the initialization, you don't realize that the firewall has not been set up sucessfully. Since SuSEfirewall_init calls /sbin/SuSEfirewall close, which allows no incoming traffic, this does not open the machine to the "world". But I'm not quite sure if this "failure mode" is the best possible solution. Any opinions? Best regards, Albert Brandl