On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 20:36, maina <dmaishe@gmail.com> wrote:

I dont think you are saving the said file correctly! Thts what happens when you edit and reboot without saving poa.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

CentOS release 5.7. It's a VPS and I have access to a web UI called parallels.

I edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables manually and I save the changes, restart iptables and the changes work! When I reboot, all changes are lost!!

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 18:15, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
What distro?

On 31 October 2011 18:02, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:

Not being that good with Linux, I need some help with some component that is disturbing my peace:

When I modify iptables manually and reboot, some monster in the system comes and replaces my manually added rules.

How do I kill the monster, or rather tell it to accept my rules??

Linux test.linux.svr 2.6.18-028stab070.14 #1 SMP Thu Nov 18 16:04:02 MSK 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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