how to know shorewall is runing?

shams · 12-25-2004, 08:35 PM

hi,
i insalled the shorewall and run the 'shorewall start',the output was shorewall started,then i reboot the pc i didn't see the shorewall in the boot messages as the boot startup applications, then in a terminal i did 'ps aux' and didn't find the shorewall in the runing proceses,i can see the shorewall in /etc/init.d and /etc/rc.d/init.d,but don't know either it is running or stopped?plz tell me how i can check the shorewall is it runing or no?

Oliv' · 12-26-2004, 05:37 AM

Hello,

To manage startup services with RedHat based distro, use "service" and "chkconfig" command. the First to see status, to run it and the second one to enable/disable services at bootup

Oliv'

misc · 12-26-2004, 09:41 AM

The assumption that something "is running" is wrong. When started, Shorewall only loads and enables firewall rules, and then the kernel netfilter code does the rest. A good installation of Shorewall would provide a service script, which would give status output and which you can query and use like this:

chkconfig shorewall --list

to enable/disable it for next reboot or run-level change.

service shorewall start
service shorewall stop

See "service --help" and "man chkconfig".

There's a Shorewall package in http://fedora.us and http://fedoraproject.org/pre-extras/3/i386/