On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:49 AM -0600 "Rodolfo J. Paiz" > <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I know I can run these commands from the command line; but how do I make > > them permanent? > > The same way you would for iptables: Write an initscript that restores them > from a config file. Until then, gather them in a script and invoke them in > rc.local. Or better yet: /sbin/service iptables save The iptables initscript loads its config from /etc/sysconfig/iptables. Issuing the "service iptables save" command dumps the current iptables config to that file, and it will be automatically loaded on boot. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs