On Thursday 08 January 2004 6:47 am, Gilles Yue wrote: > Dear sir, > > Have tried your commands below but when I run my iptables script, > > I get "command not found" and it points to the line > > $SNMP_POLLER_IP="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" There should be no $ at the beginning of this line. Shell scripts use $ when referencing a variable, not when defining it or assigning to it. This is different from Perl. Antony. -- My New Year's resolution is not to make any resolutions I can't keep. I'm wondering whether I've failed already. Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.