Re: Debianised Firewall

[Didar Hussain <didar@uics-india.com>]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 05:51:13PM +0300, NabilM@kuveytturk.com.tr wrote:
> That works.... that's what I was looking for.
> 
> But I still didn't get the working. dpkg-reconfigure iptables just make
> the symbolic links to /etc/init.d/iptables. Where does is say to start
> it. I mean calling /etc/init.d/iptables alone doesn't work and simply
> puts out the help.
> 

You can start it manually by calling the script like:

/etc/init.d/iptables start

The symlink in /etc/rcS.d/ actually will "start" the iptables
script at boot before entering your default run-level which
is mostly 2.

Didar

-- 

BOFH excuse #340:

Well fix that in the next (upgrade, update, patch release, service pack).


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