Re: GLUG: Best wishes and first question !

[Adrian Snyman <adrians@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001 johnl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> First of all I would like to wish one and all an exceptional year, both
> work-related and on a personal basis !!!
>
> Now for my question:
>
> I have made up a script that will execute ipchains / ipfwadm commands to set
> my firewall. There is a difference in its effect when I run it as a script
> file by hand,
> compared to when I put those same commands in the rc.local script. Is this
> possible ??
> Am I going craze !!
>
> Tnx
> John
>

Depends on whether your Interfaces are initialized before the running of the
Rules ..

Maybe create your own shell script, make it executable and symlink to your
runlevel startup Directory with something like ..

S99chains


So that it bcomes the last thing to execute as the system comes up ..


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