-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2011 03:08 PM, Michael D. Berger wrote: > In setting up my new CentOS 6 laptop, I replaced > /etc/sysconfig/iptables with my own, very restrictive version. I > then tried to restart the iptables daemon, but it reported that my > new iptables was unreadable. On a guess, I disabled selinux, and my > problem was solved. Later, I re-enabled selinux and on reboot, it > had to go through a very long setup procedure. > > Is there something better I could have done when replacing > iptables, so that I would not have to disable selinux? > > Thanks for your help. Mike. > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing > list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Run restorecon on the files you changed. restorecon -R -v /etc/sysconfig Is all you probably needed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5dNZIACgkQrlYvE4MpobPSygCgvb9bm6KEcIhv+VoR+uEAapeN DwoAn2NTPyTykCcMpwwr9nfamgqgzifm =PkaT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos