iptables is only runnable as root user, if you do want to see what it runs you'll need to type "su -" in a console then enter your root password. you'll be given a ppp0 interface when you are finished logging in to your isp. you can see it by running (as root again) "ifconfig -a" to see all your network connections (lo0 is your local loopback connection). i suspect the personal firewall problem is to do with a misconfiguration somewhere, probably a missing character in /etc/sysconfig/personal-firewall or similar Ewan On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 22:05, W.W. Webb wrote:
Hi everyone, I recently installed my first linux distro, and obviously it was suse 8.0. During the install I checked off about every package possible to see what suse had to offer, including all the ones under the firewall section. About two weeks later i was receiving messages in the console log when I logged in, see below.Thinking it was caused by a problem with the ipchains and the personal firewall i reinstalled everything but the ipchains about two weeks ago but the message came back today. In the past about one week later I wouldn't be able to login because this message would just scroll and scroll.
Here's what it says...
Aug 4 16:18:43 linux logger: iptables v1.2.5: host/network `entry' not found Aug 4 16:18:43 linux logger: Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. Aug 4 16:18:43 linux logger: iptables v1.2.5: host/network `entry' not found Aug 4 16:18:43 linux logger: Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
I tried $ iptables -h ... $ iptables --help with no luck. It's not even a command.
efrmau@linux:~> iptables -h bash: iptables: command not found
i checked the man page but found nothing about a host/network entry there's probably a hosts table or something for the firewall. my isp, earthlink, doesn't assign ip's, there dynamically assigned.
Any help would be appreciated. As of now I fired up firewall2, but I'm not sure I'm protected because I use a serial modem, connected to /dev/modem which I think is linked to tts0 or soething like that. I use kppp to connect, does that open ppp0 ? which is what I set up firewall2 to protect.
Eric
Oh, by the way I've been reading these lists for about a week now, and I'd like to say that I found YAST2 very easy to use and understand, but then again I can't compare it to the original one. Plus I've had generally no problems with suse, bbesides a snafu with a winmodem, but that has been replaced and yast2 set up the other one without a problem.
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