Many thanks for this very helpful message, Tom. I typed "tinyfirewall"
(no quotes) at the console prompt and got a message "everything already
installed" followed by four lines complaining about "Missing charset in
Fontset creation." It also mentioned line 70 of
/usr/lib/libDrakX/my_gtk.pm. I looked at that line in the my_gtk.pm
file. I will post these error messages on this list when I have a chance
to run Linux again. We have been having frequent thunderstorms for the
past three days and my Linux computer is turned off and unplugged. The
messages are too long for me to reproduce them without making a mistake.
I need to copy and paste.
This may explain why the firewall setup in DrakConf won't run. Maybe it
can't find the font it needs to display the screens. I have no idea how
this may have happened because I didn't do anything related to that
font, but maybe I can get it fixed up with a little help and then can
set up my firewall.
--Judy Miner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: July 08, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Security
On Saturday 07 July 2001 09:52 pm, Judith Miner wrote:
[snip]
You have to have open ports to run your system and get on the Net.
What you don't want is for those ports to be seen or accessible by
others. (.... and that about sums up my security expertise ;) I don't
know what else to suggest. You're gonna have to get DrakConf -
Security -
Firewalling functioning to setup a firewall.
[snip]
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
