Re: FW: Help! ipmasqadm problem - Help its still not working
Why not doing it the Debian way ?
That is ip_forward=yes in /etc/network/options
and then /etc/init.d/networking restart
That is simpler for newbies
Cheers.
Michael Wood writes:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:12:09AM -0600, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
> > If unquoted, most shells will search for a file with that name
> > before giving up and using the parameter as a string.
>
> Are you sure? That would be very strange if so. What would it
> want to do with the file called "1" if I said:
> echo 1 >something
>
> I'm afraid I think you're a little confused.
>
> > echo "0" > ./1
>
> This puts the character '0' followed by an end of line character
> into the file in the current directory called "1".
>
> > cat 1 > /proc/stuff
>
> This reads the contents of the file called "1" and writes it to
> the file called "/proc/stuff". i.e. "0\n" gets written to
> "/proc/stuff"
>
> > Not quoting the one will result in the file 1 being copied to
> > /proc/stuff, and file 1 contains a zero, resulting in the
>
> Indeed, but that's irrelevant.
>
> > exact opposite of what was intended.
>
> "cat" is not the same as "echo".
>
> The command to turn on IP forwarding is:
> echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> not:
> cat 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> The first sends "1\n" to ip_forward, whereas the second sends
> the contents of the file called "1" to ip_forward. It makes no
> difference if 1 is quoted or not.
>
> The quotes are used to stop the shell interpreting "shell
> meta-characters" as special characters.
>
> e.g. if you want to write a string containing '<' or '>' or '('
> or ')' etc., etc. to a file using echo, you must quote it.
>
> $ echo (
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>
> $ echo "("
> (
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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