On Friday 26 April 2002 11:58 am, you wrote: > I have Red Hat 7.2 on a server. When I installed Red Hat I said no to the > firewall option. Now that the box is up and running I am trying to install > ipchains. However the kernel is not compiled for ipchains. How do I > recompile the kernel and add ipchains without reloading the box?
i doubt you need to recompile the kernel. if you are using a non-enterprise/server edition of RH, ipchains is compiled as a kernel module. i really can't remember the last time i needed to re-compile a RH kernel to get a non-esoteric piece of functionality working. three things come to mind: 1) read the ipchains HOWTO. 2) edit /etc/sysconfig/ipchains to your liking. this will be time-consuming, so i suggest you look hard for sample firewall configurations to get you jump-started. 3) "chkconfig --add ipchains" will add ipchains to the start-up sequence. w/o rebooting, you can use "service ipchains start" to start it, and it will take care of loading the kernel module and starting ipchains w/the rules you configured. shawn. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
