DOH! I do this all time, sorry. He's right no $ign before the SNMP_POLLER_IP Also I never set the nat tables or mangle tables to drop unless im using them and I have accept rules for all my traffic in them. On Thursday 08 January 2004 03:27, Antony Stone wrote: > 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. -- Daniel Fairchild - Chief Security Officer | danielf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The distance between nothing and infinity is always the same no matter how close you get to nothing.