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FireWall-1 FAQ: Failed to Load Security Policy: No such file or directory

Please note: This content was from when I was operating my FireWall-1 FAQ site, which I stopped operating in August 2005. For some reason people still have links to this stuff on the Internet that people are still clicking on.


I am making this information available again AS IS. Given how old this information is, it is likely wildly inaccurate. I have no plans to update this information.


If you're still running versions of Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 where this information is still relevant to you, do yourself a favor and upgrade to a more recent release. If you happen to be running a current release and the information is useful, it's by happenstance :)


Q:

I have a master/client set up. I am getting the following error message from both the master and client when starting FireWall-1. I get the same message when I tried to ‘fw fetch master’ from the client or ‘fw load policy.W client’ from the master:

    Failed to Load Security Policy: No such file or directory

A:

In some cases, this is because you do not have the correct license installed. To verify the license key, on each machine:

    fw printlic -k

Make sure that

  • If you are using ‘eval’ license, that it has not expired.
  • There is no entries with the word [Invalid] under the ‘Features’ column.

To re-set the license file on Solaris 2.x:

    fwstop
    rm /etc/fw/conf/fw.license
    rem_drv fw
    fw putlic ....
    add_drv fw
    fw printlic -k

For other platforms:

    fwstop 
    rm /etc/fw/conf/fw.license 
    fw putlic .... 
    fw printlic -k

In other cases, this error has come up because your policy may contain a non-US ASCII character such as an umlaut in a comment. Another possible problem is that you’ve called your policy the same name as your firewall, which is a bad thing (Karim Ismael discovered this). Name your policy something else.

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