[Mageia-dev] systemctl no longer supports reload on iptables

Tue Oct 30 23:28:10 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Richard Couture at 30/10/12 21:33 did gyre and gimble:
+> I am teaching a class on administration of GNU & Linux using Mageia 2 at
+> one of the State of Jalisco's offices and while teaching iptables I
+> noted that reload no longer is supported with this service.
+> 
+> I have always used it in the past to avoid disconnecting people with
+> restart if whatever changes I made to the tables were not relevant to
+> their connection.
+> 
+> Has something changed in iptables/netfilter where restart works like
+> reload used to work, or have we lost some functionality?
+
+
+Well, traditionally, the "reload" operation has not generally been
+supported on singleshot services (which iptables.service is), however, a
+patch was recently committed upstream which I suspect you will like:
+
+
+http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=2abba39d759bacebd7461f7370bb108f48dcce92
+
+This is now available in cauldron, but the iptables.service file needs
+to be updated to include the correct line in the unit:
+
+ExecReload=/usr/lib64/iptables.init reload
+
+
+I'll make a note to update the iptables package (but someone is welcome
+to beat me to it).
+
+Col
+
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