On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:45:49PM +1000, Alister Waller wrote:
> I did some looking around and found in /etc/rc.d/init.d an ipchains file. I
> guessed that this would be run at startup, but I don't know linux well
> enough to know this for sure.
Possibly. In /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, you'll see several files starting with `S' and
several starting with `K'. Those starting with `S' are started on entry to run
level 3; those with `K' are killed. These files are merely symbolic links to
the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d.
Run level 3 is one of the two most likely run levels your system enters on
boot. The other is 5 (xdm). Have a look for a line like this in /etc/inittab:
id:3:initdefault:
^
This is the default run level.
To change what's started or stopped in any particular run level, see `man
chkconfig'. You could just change the links yourself, but the order is
important so if you're not sure what you're doing, just use chkconfig.
> I added a file called /etc/sysconfig/ipchains and added in the two ipchains
> lines from above....minus the ipchains bit of course.
This file should contain the output of ipchains-save, which is merely a listing
of the ipchains rules minus the command name, in other words, exactly what
you've done.
> if I now run /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains start it reads my
> /etc/sysconfig/ipchains file and does not give any errors so I guess this
> part is OK.
You guess right.
> hmmm...now how do I start ipchains or ipforwarding now at boot time?
I don't know about ip forwarding, I don't have a RH6.2 installation here to
look at. Someone else will surely be able to answer that for you.
Cheers,
John
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