-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:13:15 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:54:43AM -0500, Matthews, John wrote: > > I believe firewall rules are sometimes kept in > > /etc/sysconfig/firewall, so you might want to read the contents of > > that file too and ensure you don't have rules being set there. > > I just set up iptables on my cable cnxn (Works great!), and one of the > > items left sort of open was exactly where the iptables rules should be > placed in order to have them run at startup time. > I think the suggested place for them was in /etc/rc/ directory in > either rc.sysinit or rc.local. > > Does anyone have a definitive thought about where to place them? > > I am asking because I believe there is a window of vulnerability > if networking is brought but the iptables rules are not activated > until sometime after that. > > Thoughts anyone ? /etc/sysconfig/iptables This is from where the "iptables" SysV initscript service loads them before enabling networking. # service iptables save will save your loaded rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables. # chkconfig iptables on will enable the iptables service for current run-level, so the rules will be loaded upon next reboot. # service iptables stop will flush the loaded rules. # service iptables start # service iptables restart will load them just like a reboot. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE92ogy0iMVcrivHFQRAvu3AJwM+kVzVg+N4bU4Lxcu3Jp+z4N0OACdEA9N 02tEm1UnPv7Pjk1VvgoKYXE= =Rwn5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
