On 28 January 2016 at 18:12, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: >>>>>> "B" == Debian Bug Tracking System <ow...@bugs.debian.org> writes: > > B> I don't understand this bug report. > > B> The iptables package doesn't ship any file under /etc (at least, recently) > > B> Closing this bug now. > > # ls -l /etc/default/iptables > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3274 2002-09-20 /etc/default/iptables > # head /etc/default/iptables > # /etc/init.d/iptables defaults file > > # INTRODUCTION: First thing first, I must warn you. The iptables > # init.d setup and iptables tools themselves are VERY much capable > # of locking you out of network services. This includes remote and > # grep ^\\w /etc/default/iptables > enable_ipv6=false > enable_autosave=false > enable_save_counters=true > # rm /etc/default/iptables >
I guess that files is a leftover from an older iptables package. Could you please run dpkg -S /etc/default/iptables ? Your system seems to hold that file since 2002, which is 14 years... -- Arturo Borrero González