-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [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) > > 2) How to manipulate and configure services. I CAN and have been > sym-linking /etc/init.d/service to rc2.d/SNNservice. That too is awefully > primitive. system -> administration -> services lists 8 services from anacron > to ssh. What about the zillion others? > > Help shows not available pictures: > each service [] > with a [] > checkbox [] > > Thanks > James
If you need to manage multiple firewalls with a consistent policy/framework across multiple platforms (Linux/BSD and even Cisco PIX, Linksys, etc too) then "fwbuilder" might be another candidate. Obviously it can be used to configure a single firewall too :) Check it out: http://www.fwbuilder.org/ FWIW, some of the "commercial" firewalls, like PIX, require a plug-in that will cost $$$. However it's completely free (beer and speech) for Linux/BSD firewalls. Cheers, James -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEsdE6wBHpdJO7b9ERArcsAKCVW7iUzKachnVFE//gX9Z8CWUBpgCcCAmN hvnKXrgUaRuW0aYK/r1CNlc= =ZACq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html