Re: [Shorewall-devel] Shorewall 2.5.5 fails to start...

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:35, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 11:28, Dave Hawkes wrote:
> > However one small issue I've noticed is that if
> > /var/lib/shorewall/lock somehow exists after shorewall has crashed or
> > hung (ie after not using critical with YP), then further attempts at
> > starting or stopping shorewall causes it to freeze after printing
> > "Loading modules" rather than issue an error...
>
> That issue pertains to all versions of Shorewall.

But you can adjust the amount of time that Shorewall will wait before=20
proceding by setting the MUTEX_TIMEOUT option in shorewall.conf (default is=
=20
60 seconds).

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