APF status

[sdjl]

Hello,

I don't have much experience (yet!) with APF and i've been looking through documents this afternoon and looking at all the settings, etc.

I have a couple of questions regarding APF.
1) How can i tell that APF is running? Is there a process i should be looking for?

2) I noticed this in the APF "status" log:

Dec 23 17:06:47 host apf(13575): firewall initalized
Dec 23 17:06:45 host apf(15778): unable to load iptables module (ip_tables), aborting.
Dec 23 17:06:44 host apf(13575): activating firewall

Is not being able to load the iptables module bad? If so, do you have any suggestions for getting the iptables module to load?

Thanks for any help. It all helps in me being a little more self sufficient with a VPS :)

David

[charles]

Hi David

Please email support if you continue to have problems with it. APF should work fine. You can run ps auxww | grep apf to see the process, or service apf status|stop|start|restart to control it. lsmod will show the modules loaded.

charles

[sdjl]

Hi Charles,

Thanks for the reply :)

This is all i get if i ps auxww | grep apf

root 780 0.0 0.0 1508 476 pts/0 S 17:53 0:00 grep apf

I did try that earlier today out of curiosity and the same came up.

I'll contact support as i'm pretty sure that means it's not running when it should be :)
I do also notice that it seems to be enabling demo mode every so often, even when i've modified the conf file to take it out of "devel" mode.

David

[charles]

David, Sergey has got you taken care of. We have some automated setup scripts that needed updating as variable names changed in the latest apf. The apf config needs SET_MONOKERN="1" to work on a virtuozzo vps.

ho ho ho
charles

[sdjl]

Ah yes, that's made it better :)
I did also notice that the config file has these two settings set to eth0 rather than the venet0 that is setup under WHM:

IFACE_IN="venet0"
IFACE_OUT="venet0"

I changed them which stopped an error occurring. :)

David

[charles]

Thanks David

Was this a default install by us, or did you reinstall apf? Either way, I'll make sure this is addressed.

charles

[sdjl]

I went to install it myself, but it prompted me that it was already installed.
So whether that changed any of the config files or not, i don't know :)

Worth looking at anyway just in case.

Merry Christmas!

David

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[sdjl]

lol :D

David