Re: Guarddog causes intermittent system hang during boot
On Friday 01 April 2011 10:07 am, Edward C. Jones wrote:
> I have a PC with Debian 6.0 and the amd64 kernel.
>
> When my system is booting I sometimes get the following message:
> "Setting up guarddog firewall... /etc/rc.firewall: line 390: logger:
> command not found". Then the system hangs.
That is a strange message. Guarddog is only a front end to
iptables/netfilter. It does not "run" on startup, only /etc/rc.firewall is
run.
Also, gaurddog is a KDE3 ap only. According to the author, it does not run on
KDE4 and it is no longer being maintained.
>
> One time the boot procedure hung with the message "Setting up
> prelinminary keymap...".
That is a different error from a different part of the system.
>
> What is the problem? Does a typical user need a firewall? Are there any
> other easy to use firewalls besides guarddog?
I would not run a system without a firewall, but I guess it can depend on what
you are running and what ports are open to the public.
Mark
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