Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/local - one thing led to another

[John J. Foster]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:26:08PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> >
> You should use rc-update to run the startup script. Local is for commands
> that you want run, not really a great way to run other startup scripts. The
> command you want is probably `rc-update add rc.firewall default`.
>  -Mike

Last nigh I started to add rc.firewall to the default runlevel, but I
noticed that there was already an iptables script in /etc/init.d.
Reading through it, and it companion in /etc/conf.d, it became clear
that this seemed like the more elegant solution. So I did the following:

/root > /etc/rc.firewall	# to start the guarddog firewall
/root > /etc/init.d/iptables save	# to save the current state
/root > rc-update add iptables default	# to start automatically
/root > reboot

At first this didn't work because the rc.firewall script loaded necessary
kernel modules for ip-conntrack, etc... I decide to build that
capability into the kernel instead of using modules.

All is working right now, and I don't have to worry about any changes
made to guarddog, as the iptables script saves state before shutting
down.

Thanks for the pointers,
John - who realizes that he needs a better understanding of initscripts

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