[gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Joel Merrick
Hi all I am using an iptables script called APF and I want to auto-start it (/etc/apf/apf -s) when the machine/service starts and when the service restarts (/etc/apf/apf -r) Please could someone point me in the right direction for theses initscripts.. So far I have this and I know it's wrong..

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:18, Joel Merrick wrote: Hi all I am using an iptables script called APF and I want to auto-start it (/etc/apf/apf -s) when the machine/service starts and when the service restarts (/etc/apf/apf -r) I don't know your needs and so I'm probably missing something

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Joel Merrick
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 12:33 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I don't know your needs and so I'm probably missing something here, but why can't you save your rules and then use the standard /etc/init.d/iptables {start|stop} scripts mechanism? Because there's a lot more features with the APF

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Christoph Gysin
Joel Merrick wrote: I am using an iptables script called APF and I want to auto-start it (/etc/apf/apf -s) when the machine/service starts and when the service restarts (/etc/apf/apf -r) From man start-stop-daemon: start-stop-daemon - start and stop system daemon programs I don't know apf but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:39, Joel Merrick wrote: Because there's a lot more features with the APF script - like Anti DOS, realtime blackholing of networks, sysctl tuning etc.. http://www.rfxnetworks.com/apf.php Here's a run down; Then I guess you can put the initialization commands for

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for init script?

2005-03-03 Thread Joel Merrick
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:05 +0100, Christoph Gysin wrote: /etc/apf/apf -s /dev/null Cool, thanks for that... -- Joel Merrick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part