Guest michaelsw Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Hi there! I'm experiencing an odd problem with Shorewall. I'm pretty new to Linux and I'm afraid I'll broke something when messing around the computer. Problem is that some apps (namely OpenOffice, Windows' apps through Wine, ppracer, etc) take forever to start just after booting UNTIL I go to MCC, select the firewall setup applet and set it up again (I mean, don't disabling it go again through the three steps of the wizard). When I click 'OK', all is working fine again and all the apps are starting at normal speed. I've been googling for that but haven't had any success. Any clues? TIA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shams Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 when started the shorwall do: chkconfig --add shorewall next time when you start the system shorewall will start fully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 Or go into MCC---------------->Systems---------------------->Enable or disable the system services .......and place a tick in Shorewall. So you don't have to reboot to start Shorewall just press Start Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest michaelsw Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 (edited) Thank you both. Shorewall was set to start at boot, but it failed to do so because I had installed kmyfirewall and it somewhat made shorewall stop. I could have uninstalled kmyfirewall, but I compiled it instead of installing an rpm and I don't know how to uninstall it. I have a couple of images of the Mandriva partition and I restored a clean one without kmyfirewall. However, that installation of kmyfirewall was nicer than this one and I don't mind restoring it again and fixing the kmyfirewall issue, so if anyone can help, I'll check this board regularly :D Thank you again and regards! Edited February 28, 2006 by michaelsw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 kmyfirewall was probably interferring with shorewall, since they are both based on ipchains/tables (i imagine). to uninstall a program you installed via source (./configure, make, make install) just do the same ./configure command (with any options, i.e. ./configure --prefix=/usr) and then do make uninstall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest michaelsw Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 kmyfirewall was probably interferring with shorewall, since they are both based on ipchains/tables (i imagine). Yes. They do. I selected interactive mode during boot and choosed not to load kmyfirewall and all was going around fine, so it was clear that what was guilty was kmyfirewall. to uninstall a program you installed via source (./configure, make, make install) just do the same ./configure command (with any options, i.e. ./configure --prefix=/usr) and then do make uninstall Thanks :D I'll keep that in mind. Also I'll try to repair the 'hurted' Mandriva image with that. Best regards to all of you so helpful people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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