AW: [FW1] "magic number" corrupted in Security Policy downloadin g

[Arno Hechenberger <arno@FW1-NOSPAMcitydata.at>]

Hello !!!

I've found this problem at every FW-1 !!!!

I am not able to update or install the user DB.

HELP is appreciated !


Arno Hechenberger
citydata






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Nadhem Al-Fardan
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Januar 2001 16:07
An: MICHELE RIVIERI; fw-1-mailinglist@lists.us.checkpoint.com
Betreff: Re: [FW1] "magic number" corrupted in Security Policy
downloading



- Stop the firewall, fwstop
- Delete the $FWDIR/database/fwauth.NDB* files
- Start it again, fwstart
- Install the policy

At 03:06 PM 1/17/01 +0100, MICHELE RIVIERI wrote:




>Hi all,
>A client recently reported that he finds the following error every time he
>installs a security policy.
>
>-----------
>Downloading Security Policy "policyname".pf to
>localhost("HOSTNAME")
>Downloading on localhost("HOSTNAME") succeeded
>ndb_open: database 'magic number' corrupted(C:\FW1\4.1\database\fwauth.NDB)
>
>Installing Security Policy "policyname" on all.all@"HOSTNAME"
>Installing Security Policy on localhost("HOSTNAME") succeeded
>Done.
>------------
>
>Apparently everything works fine in the firewall, but the "magic number"
error
>is disturbing his dreams (and as a consequence my ones).
>I checked both the mailing list archive and phoneboy but I found problems
>similar to my one only in older versions. My client is running version 4.1 
>(SP1)
>on a NT machine, firewall and management module reside on the same machine.
>Does anyone know which is the reason of this error and which consequence it
>gives (and even how to solve it if I'm so lucky).
>
>  Thanks
>
>   Michele
>
>
>
>
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