On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, John Dangler wrote: > I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section > there that sets up a file called firewall.sh > i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system,
Probably a script the wiki author created perhaps... > and it seems that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" writes this file as > /var/lib/iptables/rules-save. That's right. > Is there a specific directory where this file > should be written so that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" can see it? > Or can the rules-save file be edited and re-written? (It seems as though > running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" would just over-write rules-save). That's right it does. There's nothing stop you editing /var/lib/iptables/rules-save but be aware that the init scripts might overwrite those changes if iptables has been started. (The init script also support a "reload" option which looks like it flushs all the rules without saving them first and then loads them again from /var/lib/iptables/rules-save - this might be useful for you). -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
