Re: iptables file locations question
Hi Mike,
On my Etch system at least, I'm not seeing any files that list the
iptables rules (as I think this is what you're looking for). Such a
thing would be created if you manually configured your firewall rules
(inputting a bunch of iptables -A ....) and then saved them to a file
using uptables-save, maybe that's what you're referring to?
My recommendation would be to do what I did; make a little shell
script that contains all the iptables -A ..... rules. You can edit
the file with your favorite text editor, include lots of #comments to
remind yourself why on earth you set the rules that way, and when
you're done, just
sudo firewall_rules.sh
and it'll load up. If you do this, don't forget to either set the
script to run automatically at startup, or add the following lines to
/etc/network/interfaces:
pre-up iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules
post-down iptables-save -c > /etc/iptables.rules
(if you add these lines, after your next startup, /etc/iptables.rules
will contain your list of firewall rules -- perhaps this is what you
want anyway).
Hope that helps,
Jeff
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:55 PM, GI_Mike - Herman von Mandel
<gi_mike2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings to the List!
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> In Woody, Debian placed the iptables files in /var/lib/iptables where two files could be found: active and inactive. It was nice to be able to pull the files into a favorite text editor and change as needed.
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> However, etch does not place any of the iptables files in this location (which I admit was a strange location - I would have expected them in /etc/iptables) and I would like to be able to modify them by hand instead of using the command line iptable -A or iptable -list fucntions.
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> Does anybody know where these files are now stored or what they are called if they have been renamed?
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> Thanks!
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