[wellylug] Gnome Stuffed

[Jethro Carr]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 08:44, Rob Stockley wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 16:47, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > I undid all the configuration changes that I had done, & I found that
> > when my firewall script was being run, gnome would do nothing for
> > ages, when I removed the script, it loaded really fast
> > 
> > Does anyone have any idea? I've attached the script so you can see it.
> 
> Here's a newbie longshot. I had trouble with a similar pause while
> loading the scsi modules for my scanner. Upon loading the scsi module
> would scan for devices (I think) and the whole system would simply  stop
> (appear to have crashed) for 20s until it had finished. After the pause
> the scanner worked and the system worked normally. 
> 
> Does your firewall script trigger the loading of any kernel modules?

I'm not too sure - I think that the ipv4 forwarding is built into the
kernel...

I had a older script that just acted as a gateway & had no security.
I've attached it to this email

> 
> Another possibility. On my RH9 box the iptables script runs before the
> networking script. Is this important? Is this the same with your script?
> Perhaps the firewall script causes a whole bunch of network
> reconfiguration if its run with networking up?

No, I've run it at a command line with iptables running & it worked ok.
I've also run it & saved the new configuration to the iptables
configuration file.


--- Jethro

dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz

homepages.paradise.net.nz/jethroc/

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