Frank, On Sunday 13 November 2005 09:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Is there a way to programmatically (perl, etc.) detect whether a > > local > > >> firewall has been enabled in SuSE? > > I'll try to clarify my question. In the process of performing remote > management and support it would be helpful to know if a remote > machine has a local firewall enabled. We are running an agent on > remote systems and would like to be able to determine if a remote > system has a firewall enabled (remote agent would be providing this > information).
I don't get it. If you've got the remote agent running there to "provide this information," what more do you need? > I'm not an expert in Suse/IPTables, and am not sure if "iptables > --list" is what I am after since you may have firewall rules defined, > but have the firewall currently disabled. Well, it surely won't tell you the iptables configuration on a remote host unless you run it there somewho. > Thank you, > > > > Frank Is there any way you could refrain from attaching those silly disclaimers to your postings? They're meaningless, you know. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
