On Wednesday 29 October 2003 6:25 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > following the man page, i wanted to see just the information > about symbolic names for ICMP types with: > > $ iptables -p icmp -h > > but i got what looks like the full online help. should i have > expected this? I get the normal full help, followed by the ICMP-specific help. Similarly for "iptables -p tcp -h" and "iptables -p udp -h", except there's not so much TCP-specific or UDP-specific stuff as there is for ICMP. Antony. -- All matter in the Universe can be placed into one of two categories: 1. things which need to be fixed 2. things which will need to be fixed once you've had a few minutes to play with them