Tabled uses a fifo to accept commands. That fifo must be manually created in this version of tabled before the daemon is started: # mkfifo /var/run/tabled.sock To automatically start tabled at system startup time, you can add the following commands to ${SYSCONFDIR}/rc.local: if [ -x ${PREFIX}/sbin/tabled ]; then echo -n ' tabled' mkfifo -m 600 /var/run/tabled.sock ${PREFIX}/sbin/tabled fi Make sure to set the permsission of the fifo right.