On second thought, I'm not sure where you are seeing the reported error (in a logfile?).
It might help to use the following lines in /etc/init.d/iptables: mkfifo /tmp/fifo; tee -a /tmp/iptables.out 0</tmp/fifo & echo -en "\n$(date)\n$0 @$" >>/tmp/fifo; exec 1>>/tmp/fifo 2>&1 And if someone knows a better way of doing this, I'm all ears .. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]