On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:26:19 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> Greetings all; > > Since the big conversion of file structs vs who owns what, which > apparently includes running rc.local as the logged in user and not as > root, that has hidden the iptables stuff from everybody but root > since its not now in the users $PATH. > > So what is the best way to assure this stuff gets started during a > reboot or restart of X? Stuff that s/b running regardless of any X > restarts until the next full reboot? Stretch, uptodate plus tde here. > > My server iptables is inherited from, I think, sarge, so it's probably not done optimally today. It's an init script run from /etc/rcS.d. My netbook was stretch until a few weeks ago, is now buster, therefore is somewhat broken. It has iptables-persistent installed, which I believe is all that is needed now. Or you can muck about with systemd... -- Joe
