On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 9:54:09 AM UTC-5, Vincent Elliott wrote: > Just adding my 2 cents to this conversation... > > The file "/rw/config/rc.local" does not consistently execute on Debian-8 and > I find that the VM has to be restarted (sometimes multiple times) for it to > take effect. The file is executable and all I am trying to do is allow > traffic from some other VM(s) as per the instructions in > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/firewall/. > > How can I ensure that the script executes reliably?
Debian machines sometimes have a problem with loading rc.local a little too quickly. Putting "sleep 1" or "sleep 5" before loading your firewall rules should make it reliable. (see further http://askubuntu.com/a/556563) Daniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/43c9b01d-9eb8-4804-aa9a-c486397a6891%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
