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10.3: Resolve issues with 'other firewall software'
Authored by: mauiwillie on Dec 07, '03 09:18:04PM

There is an issue here that needs a little more clearifying and that is whether Brickhouse was used under 10.2 before installing Panther over it. I was getting this issue and none of the Terminal commands or firewall.plist file removals seemed to correct the problem. After working a long time with support and facing a complete systems rebuild, I looked further into the problem. I never suspected that Brickhouse would be the problem because it is advertised as a Gui front end to the standard OSX firewall and not a third party firewall replacement. When I removed all references to Brickhouse, this problem disappeared. I asked 2nd level Apple to update their knowledge base, but I gather they have not.
I did notice that a discussion by Mac Scott under Panther discussions also stated a similar situation. He stated :

First, have you ever played with a program called BrickHouse? If you did, you may find a file called firewall.conf in your etc directory, plus, look in your /Library/StartupItems directory for startup scripts and trash them.



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