When there is a problem with the chains rules

/etc/init.d/ipchains

Happily prints out an error message and exits. If remotely administering
the box in question this is often bad. The script alss touches the file
in the subsys dir in the failure case. Could this script please be modified
to something like:

            if grep -v "^[[:space:]]*#" $IPCHAINS_CONFIG | grep -v
'^[[:space:]]*$' | /sbin/ipchains-restore -p -f
            then
                    success "Applying ipchains firewall rules"
                    echo
                    touch /var/lock/subsys/ipchains
            else
                    failure "Applying ipchains firewall rules"
                    echo
                    $0 stop
            fi

thanks