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Re: boot scripts



On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:26:44 -0400
"R. Bradley Tilley" <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:

> I have an iptables firewall script that I would like to execute
> automatically at boot. I expected to find a rc.boot or rc.local file
> where I could enter the path to the FW script so it would start at each
> boot, but I only found a rc.boot directory. I am running Debian 3.0
> stable.
> 
> My question is, what do I put into the rc.boot directory to make the
> script start? Or if that's not the place to put this type of thing,
> where is it?

The normal way to do this is to create a new control script
(/etc/init.d/skeleton is a good starting point) that will start and stop
your firewall script as needed.  Then link this into the proper run
levels.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins


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