[SOLVED] Help removing Firestarter

[TheBigAmbulance]

In an effort to firewall my Kubuntu 9.04 system, I installed Firestarter. I understood that it's just a gui for iptables. So after installing it and using it for a while, I decided that I would uninstall it and try something different. So I removed it via Synaptic. When the system restarted, the rules that had been setup under Firestarter were still active. Attempting a 'sudo iptables --flush' and then 'sudo iptables-save' did not change the conditions of the system on startup. My next attempt was to 'sudo apt-get purge firestarter'. But my system STILL comes up with the firewall settings. I did not see any items in '/etc/init.d' that would start ip tables.

Could someone please point me in the direction of removing firestarter and getting my iptables back to a 'allow everything' mode?

[Snowhog]

Re: Help removing Firestarter

See IptablesHowTo

[TheBigAmbulance]

Re: Help removing Firestarter

Hey Snowhog... Thanks for the reply.

I think I figured it out. When I tried restarting my network 'sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart', I noticed the following:

dpich@dpich-M6400:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                                                                          Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.                                                                          
 * Stopping the Firestarter firewall...                                                                         
  ...done.                                                                                       
 * Starting the Firestarter firewall...                                                                         
  ...fail!                                                                                       
run-parts: /etc/network/if-down.d/50firestarter exited with return code 2                                                        
 * Disconnecting iSCSI targets                                                                              
  ...done.                                                                                       
 * Stopping iSCSI initiator service                                                                           
  ...done.                                                                                       
 * Stopping the Firestarter firewall...                                                                         
  ...done.                                                                                       
 * Starting the Firestarter firewall...                                                                         
  ...fail!                                                                                       
run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/50firestarter exited with return code 2                                                         
 * Starting iSCSI initiator service iscsid                                                                        
  ...done.                                                                                       
 * Setting up iSCSI targets                                                                               
  ...done.

There were left over entries in /etc/network/if-up.d for firestarter. Once I cleaned those out, my problem was over.

Thanks again for the help!!

[Snowhog]

Re: [SOLVED] Help removing Firestarter

Glad you got it figured out.