iptables starts upon startup even tho it's set to be off via chkconfig

[amlife]

environment: centos 5.7

Issue: iptables starts upon startup even tho it's set to be off via chkconfig


chkconfig --list iptables

all off ...

chkocnfig iptables off

reboot ...

starts again

any ideas .. this is the first time I have seen something like that!

[atreyu]

Sorry for the silly question, but how are you confirming that the firewall is starting? e.g., what command are you using?

Look for rogue startup links to the iptables initscript using this find command:

find /etc/rc.d/ -type l -ls|grep iptables