On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 06:35 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 06:48 +0000, Andrew Silverman wrote:
> 
> > I am setting up a shorewall6-only config to firewall my HE tunnel.  The 
> > system is a CentOS 6.0 VM (running on Hyper-V but that's not the problem 
> > here.)
> > 
> > Shorewall6 runs just fine when I "su" and then launch it manually with 
> > "shorewall6 start" - no problems, everything behaves exactly as intended, 
> > and all the firewall behavior is exactly as I want it to be.  So with all 
> > that initial config taken care of (much experimentation required) I moved 
> > on to trying to get it to start at boot automatically.
> > 
> > However, when I try to launch it instead by putting shorewall6 start into 
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local, it fails, and the log only shows me this:
> > 
> > [root@ipv6tunl log]# more shorewall6-init.log
> > Jul 30 23:38:10 Processing /etc/shorewall6/params ...
> > Jul 30 23:38:10    ERROR: Processing of /etc/shorewall6/params failed
> > 
> > And that's it - nothing else in the log.  I tried changing the start line 
> > to do tracing to /tmp/trace, but the trace came up empty, so at the moment 
> > I am clueless as to why it won't start properly at boot time.
> > 
> > FYI, the reason I'm starting it this way rather than by chkconfig is so 
> > that I can force a few ip commands to complete first to configure the HE 
> > 6in4 tunnel first before starting the firewall that relies on the tunnel 
> > being running.
> > 
> > Totally open to suggestions, or what more troubleshooting/logging I can 
> > provide - NOT a Linux expert, but learning fast.
> 
> What are the contents of /etc/shorewall6/params?
> 

Also, which version of Shorewall6 are you running?

-Tom
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