On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:55:30 -0600, "James A. Pattie" <james@pcxperience.com> wrote in message <3E676F72.1060702@pcxperience.com>: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Brian Bunnell wrote: > > Hello > > > > Thank you very much for helping me. I have a perfectly good > > netfilter script that I run from the command line and everything > > works fine. I > would > > like this script to run when I boot up the computer. I am having a > > lot of trouble finding quality resources on the net about this. > > > > There are great resources for learning how to use netfilter. > > However, > when > > it comes to startup scripts, all the examples seem to be 25 pages > > long and incomprehensible or wnat me to completely rewrite the > > script I already > have. > > > > Why can't I just tell the computer to run my script instead of the > "Let the > > world in" script it runs at boot? > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations, resources or better yet, a > > good concise example for run level 3? > > If you are on a chkconfig/sysv system just add the necessary chkconfig > entries to the top of your script, drop it in /etc/init.d and > chkconfig{script name} on. Make sure you disable the iptables scripts > if on a redhat box. > > The PCX Firewall project will generate a redhat init script. > http://pcxfirewall.sf.net/ Use that for examples on how to modify > your script. ..the classic bsd approach is move your script to /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall and call it from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, just before rc.local runs you online at boot time. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
