Ron Darling wrote:

> I am setting up a Firewall for my internal network at my home office.  I am
> using several books to help.  One of the books has a script to use to
> perform a basic setup of IPTables.  The book describes creating a file with
> the script in it.  Load the script using the command:
> 
> iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules
> 
> When I issue this command I receive error: 'Bad Argument 'echo'
> 
> The first line of script is:
> 
> echo > 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> 
> The path and file is valid for ip_forward.
> 
> What could be causing this error ?
> 
> Thanks for the help so far. You folks have been right on the money.
> 
> Ron Darling
> President Ix.sys, Inc.
> http://www.ixsys.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 817.377.0925
> 
> 

Hi

Have you set up the path correctly for the echo command?
I set up PATH=/usr/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/sbin

regards

Michael Ring





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