OK, this is getting too deep for me. On Linux Mint Cinnamon 18, I'm running Shorewall and apache2 (and isc-dhcp-server, openssh-server and samba). One of the interfaces apache is listening on has a number of additional ip addresses matching DNAT rules. Apache fails to start on boot because the attempt to listen on this interface (on the base IP address) fails. It's not clear whether this is because shorewall is still starting or because the basic networking is still messing about adding IP addresses to the interface. Starting apache later by handworks fine.
The whole init system on Mint 18 seems a mess. Shorewall is started by systemd from /lib/systemd/shorewall.service, apache is started by SysV init from /etc/init.d/apache2, whereas sshd and samba are started by upstart from /etc/init/ssh.conf and /etc/init/samba.conf. I think in fact systemd is masquerading as init - there's no inittab, but how systemd and upstart dependencies are supposed to resolve is as yet a mystery to me. A long time ago (on Mint 17) I had a problem with sshd not starting which was fixed by putting a sleep 5 in /etc/init/ssh.conf and this fix also works on Mint18. I could presumably put a sleep 5 in /etc/init.d/apache2 but the real solution would be to sort out the dependencies. Any idea how to do that? Regards - Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
