On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 06:52:09PM +0530, Ashwin Khandare wrote: >> 1) How can I automatically connect to my ISP and start my firewall >> (Firestarter) on a system restart? >You can enter the path of Firestarter script in /etc/rc.local .This will >fire you firewall whenever the system boots up.
A better way to do this is to get your firewall running the way to like (firestarter, custom rules, whatever), then dump the rules to the ipchains config file: service ipchains save Then make sure ipchains is started in the runlevels that include networking (levels 3-5): chkconfig --levels 345 ipchains on Now when you boot, ipchains will run a standard initscript and read your rules from it's config file (/etc/sysconfig/ipchains). You can change your rules at the command line and save them so that they are used each time the machine boots. I have a custom firewall script that I use to configure my firewall. The last command of the script saves the rules using the "service" command. The script uses the long options (--append instead of -a, --protocol instead of -p). That is much easier to read and maintain. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
