The basic firewall is so stupid it can't remember that it has been turned
off in the GUI. I removed it from my box to prevent it from locking me out
remotely when rebooting, cause it always defaulted to enabled.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis [mailto:dennis (at mark) mixfans.org]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:50 AM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:07252] wierd things happen
>
> Yesterday,
> one of my boxes told me: I do not like it anymore and it had to rebooted
>
> just a simple reboot: no LILO and no start
> used a CD-ROM, linux rescue and chroot /mnt/sysimage
> as I run on RAID I have always a big ?? above my head to solve this
> I typed LILO and saw 2 kernels added to LILO .. uhmff..
>
> I restarted the machine and WOW it worked .. but after a 2nd reboot: NO GO
> same issue again.
>
>
> Suddenly all strange things happened after rebooting: do reverse dns, no
> e-mail ftp issues etc.
>
> Finally this morning I saw that the option FIREWALL was enabled in BQ .. .
> very wierd as I only rebooted the machine and prior to the reboot not
> entered the box as it was running fine.
>
> Disabled and suddenly all kinds of processes started again ..
>
> 1. How can I check / run LILO and write it as correct back to MBR ?
> (with RAID)
> 2. How can suddenly FIREWALL be enabled
>
> (I'm the one and only admin) ...
>
> Thanks