[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> my ongoing frustrations:
>
> 1) How to setup a firewall in ubuntu? It seems suitable iptables settings do
> work but that's awefully primitive. This article did not help
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259 (no lokkit or guarddog
> can be found by apt-get)
If you enable universe you can get these:
erikd > apt-cache search guarddog
guarddog - firewall configuration utility for KDE
guidedog - NAT/masquerading/port-forwarding configuration tool for KDE
erikd > apt-cache search lokkit
gnome-lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (GNOME
interface)
lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console interface)
> 2) How to manipulate and configure services. I CAN and have been
> sym-linking /etc/init.d/service to rc2.d/SNNservice. That too is awefully
> primitive.
Yes. For a commandline way of doing this on Debian/Ubuntu try
update-rc.d. I'm pretty sure there are gui tools for this as well.
Erik
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