[newbie] 9.1 does notproposes to reboot

Dear, I upgrade my 9.0 to 9.1 raised the security level from normal from Higher. I now cannot find anything looking like a reboot entry in the menus... I had to access another console invoke the REBOOT option ! Is that a mistake of mine or is it for a special purpose ... ? I now have to

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

Correct but if you are doing a runner up then you may change distro every new release because one comes with always the latests nicest, collest tools (for the next two weeks). Suze is greate but there are drawbacks too. While attending a course @IBM, they provided me a Suze 9.0 which was not

[newbie] iptables / netfilter policies

Based on rusty russels document I worked out the following rules. Could someone tell me if they look safe ? Topology : internet FW - intranet (192.168.1.xxx) (eth0) (eth1)gtw : 192.168.1.1 Aim : 1°. Any

[newbie] iptables

I'm a bit confused with the iptables installation in the MDK 8.1... There is in the /etc/sysconfig/ a rather cryptic iptables file called in the start up process. When trying to by-pass the call to the file for a self made file the call to iptabes commands. The commands give error codes