On Friday 22 October 2010 18:13:54 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > On 10/22/2010 07:42 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Friday 22 October 2010 14:57:15 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >> On 10/22/2010 06:00 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > >>> On Friday 22 October 2010 11:00:40 Gilbert Sullivan wrote: > >>>> Does this have something to do with Firestarter being started (or not > >>>> started) at different run levels during startup? I briefly see > >>>> something about it scrolling by, but I never get a chance to read it. > >>> > >>> You can use 'dmesg |grep<service/> ' to see what happens during boot. > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Many thanks for the idea. > >> > >> I get no result from any variation of "fire I can think of to substitute > >> for<service/>. > >> > >> I had already pored over dmesg to see if I could find anything, and it > >> was to no avail. (I really have to get off my lazy behind and start > >> studying things like use of grep with the logs.) > >> > >> As I said to Rob, I'm thinking I've got a "project" for the weekend. > >> > >> Ouch! The wife just saw me type that! > >> > >> Regards, > >> Gilbert > > > > 'firestarter' has a script in '/etc/init.d' and gets started by a link in > > a run level, check that out. > > > > As mentioned 'iptables -L' will show if it gets started. This is > > independent of whether or not the 'firestarter' gui is used. > > Hi, > > Yes, as suggested by Rob Owens I ran > > # /etc/init.d/firestarter start > > and the firewall started, with iptables showing the proper behavior when > I issued the "iptables -L" command. > > So it seems, for some reason, that the script isn't being run at > startup. Whether it's due to it not being called at all or whether it's > due to something else is beyond me right now. I've been a couple of days > without sleep (because of issues utterly unrelated to this), and I've > got to get to sleep. > > But, right now, it looks to me as though the system simply hasn't been > asked to start firestarter (if I can trust my very tired brain)! > Otherwise, I'd imagine that I would have seen error messages somewhere. > > It's beyond my ability to comprehend right now. I'll try to tackle this > again in a few hours when I've had some sleep. > > Many thanks for your help. > > Regards, > Gilbert
Runlevel 2 is the default runlevel. Look for a link: '/etc/rc2.d/Sxxfirestarter -> ../init.d/firestarter' -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201010230057.27880.gomadtr...@gci.net
