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From: Eric Crossman <edge1035@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] iptables
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:10:24
Message-Id: 1125028985.23436.16.camel@raptor
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] iptables by John Dangler
1 Once you run the rules once and run save, they will then be reloaded
2 from that location (/var/lib/iptables/rules-save)
3 by /etc/init.d/iptables start. The init.d script uses iptables-restore
4 and iptables-save underneath.
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6 Eric C
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8 On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 23:17 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
9 > I'm reading through the wiki doc on setting up iptables. There is a section
10 > there that sets up a file called firewall.sh
11 > i've emerged iptables, but I don't have a file by that name on the system,
12 > and it seems that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" writes this file as
13 > /var/lib/iptables/rules-save. Is there a specific directory where this file
14 > should be written so that running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" can see it?
15 > Or can the rules-save file be edited and re-written? (It seems as though
16 > running "/etc/init.d/iptables save" would just over-write rules-save).
17 >
18 > Thanks for the input.
19 >
20 > John D
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