On 24 Dec 01, at 7:36, Mark Weaver wrote: > > If you want to get bastille-firewall running, in Mandrake Control Center > there is a firewall config utility that gets the process started. It's > called Tiny Firewall. run this wizard and it will configure and start
I wish that they had named this something like "Configure Bastille Firewall". As it stands, there's no indication that this is in fact going to set up and configure bastille -- which is especially confusing since there is a product available called "Tiny Firewall", which I discovered when I went searching on the Web how to get rid of the "Tiny Firewall" (but really Bastille) that the MCC hadput in place. Even better would be to have some way to completely get rid of the firewall once MCC had put it there. The configuration dialoge says that it will enable you to remove the firewall, but in fact there seems to be no way to do so from inside MCC. It took me a non-trivial amount of time to figure out what was going on, and then remove all the Bastille rulesets so that I could put my own iptables firewall in place. The MCC thing is OK IF 1: you don't ever want to get rid of what it does for you; 2: you're running a standard system (so that, for example, when it asks if you want to block HTTP access, you recognise that it's going to assume that you are running the http daemon on port 80 and not give you a way to over-ride the default). Doc Evans -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax: +1 781 240 0527 --------------------------------------------------------------
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