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From: Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] launching iptables
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:27:20
Message-Id: 200608021720.34884.mcbrides9@comcast.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] launching iptables by James
1 On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:41, James wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I've got my own iptables script to launch a customized firewall, located in
5 > /usr/local/bin.
6 >
7 > I'm aware of /etc/init.d/iptables the 'runscipt'. I do not wish to edit
8 > this scipt as 'gentoo' updates nuke my edits therein. Where is the gentoo
9 > place of preference to launch my scipt after the gentoo runscipt
10 > '/etc/init.d/iptables' is finished running?
11 >
12 > Is their a way to get 'rc-update add <my_firewall> default' to launch
13 > my_firewall without putting it in the /etc/init.d/ dir and using the
14 > runscipt template for my script?
15 >
16 >
17 > thoughts, suggestions and examples are most welcome.
18 >
19 >
20
21 Over here I edited /etc/conf.d/local.start and have my firewall started from
22 there. Then I edited local.stop to turn it off when shutting down.
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