On Saturday 08 July 2006 05:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi > > my ongoing frustrations: > > > > 1) How to setup a firewall in ubuntu? It seems suitable iptables settings > > do work but that's awefully primitive. This article did not help > > http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259 (no lokkit or > > guarddog can be found by apt-get) > > If you enable universe you can get these: > > erikd > apt-cache search guarddog > guarddog - firewall configuration utility for KDE > guidedog - NAT/masquerading/port-forwarding configuration tool for KDE > erikd > apt-cache search lokkit > gnome-lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (GNOME > interface) lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console > interface)
Thanks for all the help! The missing link: I DID enable universe, I needed to apt-get update I did not understand that I needed to do that on a new install: jam> apt-cache search lokkit jam> James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
