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Sorry, finger trouble: Description of problem: Ran "Update Software" on fedora 8 on 20080314 (previous update was around 20080307, so it was one of the updates in between those dates) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Possibly kernel2.6.23 -> 2.6.24 upgrade, but not certain How reproducible: Too complex to attempt to reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build system from original installation 2. Modify iptables setup (I used fwbuilder, but I expect it will apply to any modified firewall) 3. Run software update Actual results: My cluster stopped working. Eventually traced (after two days' work) to iptables configuration being overwritten Expected results: My re-configured iptables setup is retained Additional info: I presume the problem is one of the recent updates, with the kernel update being an obvious guess: something in the update overwrote iptables back to the default. Of course, there's nothing wrong with an update upgrading the default iptables configuration. But it's almost trivial for the script to test first if the iptables configuration is the default, before over-writing it. This is an obvious test to include in the rpm. It seems it was omitted.
Have you disabled the normal firewall system with system-config-firewall or lokkit? If not, then you should do.
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(In reply to comment #2) > Have you disabled the normal firewall system with system-config-firewall or > lokkit? If not, then you should do. Sorry, didn't see this at the relevant time. Problem has not re-arisen since.