An error occured getting IPtables status from the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables s

CrazyMAzeY · 08-19-2004, 02:12 PM

i login to webmin and then click on networking, linux firewall and i get this error.

An error occured getting IPtables status from the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status. This probably indicates that your system has been configured to use IPchains instead of IPtables.

what do i do to sort this ?

david_ross · 08-19-2004, 02:15 PM

What distribution and version are you using?

Did you compile the kernel yourself?

CrazyMAzeY · 08-19-2004, 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by david_ross
What distribution and version are you using?

Did you compile the kernel yourself?

fedora core 2 and no i didnt compile it myself

david_ross · 08-19-2004, 04:15 PM

What happens if you run:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status

From the command line?

CrazyMAzeY · 08-19-2004, 04:25 PM

[root@ds00212 root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status
Firewall is stopped.
[root@ds00212 root]#

Vishnyakov · 08-12-2010, 03:06 AM

I'm using Webmin on my ClearOS 5.2 and I can't also edit my firewall rules through Webmin because of this error.
Running
/etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables status
give me all my firewall rules, so I suppose firewall to be running.

r3sistance · 08-12-2010, 03:32 AM

This might be an obvious one to check, but have you checked to see if the ipchains module is installed and running within webmin?

Vishnyakov · 08-12-2010, 03:41 AM

I have no ipchains installed, but i've iptables instead, and Linux Firewall webmin module, which, I suppose, shoul support both iptables and ipchains.

r3sistance · 08-12-2010, 04:01 AM

If you can get into the command line, run the command "service ipchains status" see if this returns anything.

Vishnyakov · 08-12-2010, 04:15 AM

It return 'ipchains: unrecognized service'

chrism01 · 08-12-2010, 06:25 AM

iptables replaced ipchains years ago. You certainly can't have both at the same time.
Also, FC2 is years out of date; hasn't been updated in a long time; open to cracking.
Recommend you get an up to date distro; try Fedora 13 (they dropped the 'Core' a while back) if you want to stay with Fedora.
Note that's a new version about every year.
For a longer term system, try Centos; a free version of RHEL, Currently on 5.5.