mysterious reboot, system problems

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--dport is an alias used by iptables for --destination-port when using the
tcp match extension.  It might be your script is reading data in a format
that iptables can't parse.  It expects a "--protocol tcp" before you can
use that range option.  Otherwise, that option isn't loaded.

Sounds like your system had a long uptime.  And went through a few ugrades 
before it rebooted.  This happens to me when I forget to try out my 
changes with the bootscripts.  Many months can pass without a reboot and 
then the fun starts.

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Lucas Peet wrote:

> My server rebooted last night out of the blue, and upon restart, things aren't quite right.
> 
> Everything seems to be working okay, but there's problems.
> 
> For instance, now when I try to bring up my firewall, I get this:
> 
> [root at riodo scripts]# ./firewall up
> iptables v1.2.4: Unknown arg `--dport'
> Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
> [root at riodo scripts]# 
> 
> This worked fine before...
> 
> That and it seems like the system isn't using the regular init scripts to bring itself up - 
there's some custom things in some scripts (like mysql) that aren't running.
> 
> All kinds of bogus stuff.  I can't seem to find anything at all in my logs either.  Some help 
would be *greatly* appreciated.
> 
> -Lucas
> 

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