Re: boot scripts SOLUTION
The /etc/rcS.d directory is similar to the rc.local. There is a bootmisc file
(something like S55bootmisc).
Thanks to Larry Smith for the tip. All I had to do was to place the path to
the script at the very end of this file and it ran at boot. I'm liking Debian
more and more. Makes a great samba server!
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 01:21 pm, Peter Hicks wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:26:44AM -0400, R. Bradley Tilley wrote:
> >First time Debian user, long time Linux user (SuSE & RH)
> >
> >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?
>
> Try this method. Run your script by hand so it loads all your rules.
> Then run
>
> /etc/init.d/iptables save active
>
> this should create a set of rules named active that get loaded upon
> startup. You can also create an inactive set of rules that will be
> loaded when the init script tells iptables to stop.
>
> HTH
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