lmyho wrote:
--- "Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)"lmyho wrote:Can anyone help me [know] how to auto start the firestarter? [...]No, I can't ;-)I had some problems with firestarter, so I decided to write my own iptables script.I'd suspect that one of your network interfaces is not available when the /etc/init.d/firestarter is invoked. That would cause the script to generate an error and possibly abort.I only have eth0 used for the interface. Firestarter is set on that too. Does/etc/init.d/firestarter need another interface to use? How should I do that?
The GUI configuration tool will let you change that. I'm not knowledgeable about firestarter, but the GUI should make it easy to configure the firewall.
Another possibility is that some of the modules you need for iptables aren't loaded by the time firestarter wants to start. [...]I'm still new on Debian. You are talking something I really don't familiar.:( So what is iptables and how to use it? How to check it for problem? I would be grateful to get the inside knoledge from you. Thanks!
Some years ago I downloaded an iptables tutorial from the Internet, but I didn't copy it over when I installed my new Debian system.
But it looks like you can find some good iptables tutorials here: http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=iptables+tutorial
You can probably also turn on bootloging to see what, if any, error message firestarter spits out on bootup.Have to ask again, how to do this? [...]
First, you might not have to turn on boot-logging. If you boot into text mode, you can use Shift+PageUp to see the boot messages.
But if that won't work, look at /etc/default/bootlogd and think about changing the value there.
HTH Sumo