Hey all,
I have a quick request - a change to an error message.
A friend I sold a server to called me insistant that iptables was broken on
the firewall I sold him.
He was trying the following, and got the following message:
superuser root@hydrogen:/home/root
# /bin/iptables -A INPUT -s 0.0.0.0/0 -d 0.0.0.0/0 --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
iptables v1.2.7a: Unknown arg `--dport'
Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
I figured out that he missed -p tcp, but the error is misleading.
I think it should instead say something like "iptables v1.2.7a: Argument
`--dport' cannot be used in this context" or something.
--
Sigþór Jarðarson
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"First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards,
and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture."
-- Linus Torvalds
