why are you doing it. try service iptables restart ... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chip Upsal" <cupsal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:00 PM Subject: netfilter hangups > I am running nefilter 1.2.7a on a Redhat 7.3 box kernel v. 2.4.18-24.7.x. > > I have experienced the following problems. Sometimes after making many > changes and reloading the firewall after each change...the firewall will > refuse to reload with the following output: > > [root@xxxxxxxxx root]# /etc/sysconfig/iptables condrestart > iptables: Chain already exists > iptables: Chain already exists > iptables: Chain already exists > iptables: Chain already exists > iptables: Chain already exists > > Or if i get no error the firewall will not recognize any of the changes i > have made. > > In either case i am forced to reboot the firewall to get things going again. > > > > Chip Upsal > SysAdmin > >
