iptables automatically disable

[orangeball]

Hi,
I'm using Fedora Core 5. I can't setup iptables ! I followed like this below:

1. Setup iptables under /etc/sysconfig/iptables
2. Confirmed that iptables is reflect (by using iptables -L)
4. After few min later, it turns to be default setting which is not reflect what I modified

I changed "enabled" setting under /etc/sysconfig/system-config-securitylevel
because it was "disable" but still doesn't work.

Any idea??????

[anomie]

It seems like FC's best practices suggest that you don't modify /etc/sysconfig/iptables directly (at least that's what it states in that file).

In any case, are you restarting the iptables service after modifying /etc/sysconfig/iptables?

After few min later, it turns to be default setting which is not reflect what I modified

Are you doing anything in particular during those few minutes? Restarting the box, perhaps?

[orangeball]

Ohhh, another application was working...
I installed APF(Advance policy firewall
) before and didn't touch anything but the crontab was setup under /etc/crontab :

*/5 * * * * root /etc/init.d/apf stop >> /dev/null 2>&1

"apf stop" was doing flush and clear setting.

Thank's