default startup order for firewall and yum-updateonboot

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The default startup order has firestarter starting up after yum-updateonboot (both from Fedora Linux Extras.) If you haven't booted up the system in awhile, and yum-updateonboot is taking a considerable amount of time updating,, you are vulnerable for the entire time yum-updateonboot is working.

I have had my system updating for over an hour a few times in the last couple weeks while booting, and if say, the system were vulnerable to a rapidly spreading worm on the internet, you would be unecessarilly exposed for that entire time, whereas if firestarter came up first, you would at least have a reasonable chance of being protected by your firewall policy while the system is updating.

Cpl Montleon
USMC
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