Chris Wilkinson wrote:
Hi there,
I installed an RPM of Firestarter last nite, since I'd heard it was better than Guarddog (my previous iptables config app) for managing rules etc...for a firewall...
KDE now will not boot if iptables is running, and it hangs at the point where it trys to intialise system services.
I logged in as root in a console, removed firestarter, then rebooted
I found that despite removing firestarter with a quick 'rpm -e', some config files specific to firestarter were left on the system. I had to delete those manually since iptables seemed to load those in preference to anything guarddog wrote, in setting firewall rules.
I still cannot figure why firestarter created rules that prevented KDE from booting, and none of the docs for firestarter explain anything to make sense of how that could happen...
Guarddog nows works happily, as does my firewall, since I'd gone to grc.com to give the port probe test a crack...100% TruStealth!
Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch.
