> > Would the IP-Masq rules be best started from /etc/ppp/ip-up ? > > I use a script in /etc/rc.boot which is run automatically on boot. > I guess ip-up would do, but I think it's better to set all that sort of > stuff up on boot up. > I think there is a default "setserial" one that you could look at... even > though there is not much to look at :) (am I right to say it is a > default?)
I ended up creating a script in /etc/init.d which implements the IPMasq rules fine at startup. I think what led to this was that most of the references I've seen to startup scripts were about /etc/rc.local on other distributions and the Deb FAQ equates rc.local questions with /etc/init.d It did seem like overkill though as I hadn't even thought about placing a script in /etc/rc.boot One interesting point was the update-rc.d command line I used which was update-rc.d jmasq defaults 19 Using "defaults" was supposed to add symlinks for runlevels 2 to 5 but the output of the command was the following which seems to indicate that it did more than that. I assume that each of the following directories is for a specific runlevel: Adding system startup links pointing to /etc/init.d/jmasq ... rc2.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq rc3.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq rc4.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq rc5.d/S19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq rc0.d/K19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq rc1.d/K19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq rc6.d/K19jmasq -> ../init.d/jmasq -- John Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lynx.net.au/~jspence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .