Thanks, Joe, Maybe a mix-up on terminalogy used. I did restart firewall by invoking /etc/init.d/SuSEfirewall2_init restart and /etc/init.d/SuSEfirewall2_setup restart I shall have to wait until the next time the problem strikes again to see if I have nailed the problem. Did try before with chkstat -set /etc/permissions but that didn't help - so thought it was a firewall issue triggered by YOU updates. Thanks a lot. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Joe Morris (NTM) [mailto:Joe_Morris@ntm.org] Sent: 14 November 2006 01:26 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] SLES 10 x86_64 - Permissions on password database too restrictive Chiu, PCM (Peter) wrote:
Restarting firewall (by invokine /etc/init.d/SuSEfirewall2_init and SuSEfirewall2_setup restart alone) will NOT reactivate the service. Access is only restored after flushing the firewall and restarting it.
Has anyone come across the same problem?
Any pointers here?
Since you seem to indicate it IS a firewall issue, and not a PAM issue, I would suggest doing what many of us are doing (but which seems to be a bug), and that is SuSEfirewall2 stop, then SuSEfirewall2 start, which for me has always worked. For some reasons unknown to me (and since the fix was just as easy) this seems to flush the rules and works better than a restart. YMMV. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org