On Monday 03 August 2009 02:09:03 Tim Wunder wrote:
On Sunday 02 August 2009 02:46:14 pm Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have been using s-c-firewall on this laptop, but I needed to track down
> a problem, so Iused s.c.f to disable the firewall. Now the issue is
> resolved I want to re-enable it, but can't. I've also tried 'service
> iptables start'
>
> iptables: Applying firewall rules: iptables-restore v1.4.3.1: interface
> name `Wireless_connection_1' must be shorter than IFNAMSIZ (15)
> Error occurred at line: 12
>
> Nothing has changed since iptables was happily running.
> 'Wireless_connection_1' is not something that I entered.
>
> Googling hasn't come up with anything helpful, so I'm stuck. Somewhere
> there must be a file that has line 12 containing 'Wireless_connection_1'
> - can anyone tell me where to find it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Anne
Perhaps /etc/sysconfig/iptables.save...
You could
# grep -R Wireless /etc/*
Strangely enough, when I booted up this morning I found that iptables is
running! All very odd, but I'm not giving this any more time at the moment.
Thanks for trying to help
Anne
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