Symbolic link /sbin/iptables does not exist after upgrade to RHEL 6.4

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Issue

After the upgrade from RHEL 6.3 to RHEL 6.4, when starting iptables, following error message is displayed:

# service iptables start
iptables: /sbin/iptables does not exist.                   [WARNING]

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4

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