Ouch you're correct. I only tried end-of-line comments, sorry On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexander Farber wrote: >> Is there a way to add comments to the iptables file? >> A hash mark # does not seem to work. > > assuming you are talking about /etc/sysconfig/iptables , hash is indeed > the comment mark, and works fine. > In my file on this system all comment lines have a hash as first > character on the line though, so perhaps it doesn't like end-of-line > comments but only accepts full lines of comment. > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos