Re: [gentoo-dev] Corrections to install guide - Comments, suggestions ;)

[Christian Bartl]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:55, Jarrett Heale wrote:
> How come it's "emerge sync" now instead of "emerge rsync"?
both works

>
> Also, could you through in a line about how to get iptables?
> THAT took me forever to find - and I still have no clue what I should
> enable with it.  All I know is when I apply my settings (I use
> guarddog to setup my iptables rules) the same error (something like
> "match/rule/table not found") happens like 50 times.
emerge iptables??? 
if you mean your kernel-config: 
make menuconfig, 
Network options --> Network packet filtering
Network options --> IP: Netfilter Configuration -->
read the help-entries to each item if you don't know what they are
needed for.
I'm not your opinion that that info should be in the inst.-guide. If you
need more information - there are many tutorials about iptables - which
I suggest you to read. 
I don't know guarddog - sounds like a frontend for iptables. You want
security? - Write your own netfilter-rules. It's not as hard it looks.
There are many many samples in the www. The first time it will take 2
days to configure it and then you exactly know what your rules do and
you will feel much more secure!

> Isn't iptables 80% of why linux is more secure than the leading brand?
a WELL CONFIGURED netfilter is one point to get security


> wth is a cron? I take it if you don't know you don't install one? Or
> should I grab vcron anyway? (as per "If you don't know which one to
> choose, you might as well grab vcron")
... I am silent

>
> That's about it. Thanks a lot for your time (if you read this, and
Mhm, it takes a long time to scroll through these horribly long lines.

Regards,
Christian