If you want them in a file, why not just use the ip_deny file itself? Why do you need to put them in a different file? On May 19, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > hello list, > Could I possibly bauther someone to tell me how to do this? > I have little to no experience with ssh scripting at all. > My idea is this: > I want to take the ip addresses from /etc/hosts.deny and put them in > a file, or just do the following: > iptables -A INPUT -s x.x.x.x -j DROP > where x.x.x.x would be the IP found in the hosts.deny file. > I have a or will have a script in init.d that will add all the rules > to iptables when it starts, so the script can be executed. > Any help with this would be appriciated. > Thanks, > ~~TheCreator~~ > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup