Hi, Am Die, 2003-12-09 um 18.11 schrieb Michael Gale: > Does anyone know how I could make a set of global variables that the firewall scripts can access when they start up. Put all your variables into one script: init_variables. Source this script at the beginning of your scripts: . /path-to/init_variables > 2. -- Is there a way to have iptables run a command or execute another script based on a rule :) No, not that I know of. You could generate a rule which would log an event. This event could be parsed by swatch or logsurfer. They would then start the command. Cheers, Ralf -- Ralf Spenneberg RHCE, RHCX Book: VPN mit Linux Book: Intrusion Detection für Linux Server http://www.spenneberg.com IPsec-Howto http://www.ipsec-howto.org Honeynet Project Mirror: http://honeynet.spenneberg.org