Re: Red Hat 5.0 Release date

[Mark Baker <mbaker@iee.org>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 1997 at 02:27:13PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:

> Agrees, the '/etc/init.d/network' should only contain the actual network
> up/down thingies, why not have a generic '/etc/init.d/firewall' that can be
> started manually or if, in the install procedure:
> 
> (pseudocode)
> if( computer_is_on_network) {
>   echo 'Is it a router?'
>   input computer_is_router
>   if( computer_is_router ) {
>     // Make sure we start '/etc/init.d/firewall' at boot...
>     ( extra code here... :)
>   }
> }

We mustn't include /etc/init.d/firewall at boot until it is correctly
configured. Better to make the users enable it manually.


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