On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 17:34, Angelo Machils wrote: > > > Hi there, don't know if anyone give this tip yes, but make a crontab > when messing with iptables which shuts down iptables after lets say 10 > minutes (or enough time for you to test the new tables), so in case you > get yourself locked out of the machine, you will have access again after > the job runs. Yeah, experience :) If you run Shorewall, there's a rule called "ABSENTMINDED" which does _just_ that. The only caveat is, if you happen to lose your IP (eg: dial-up) at the very instance, then you're "screwed" -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:40:04 up 10:04, 8 users, load average: 0.19, 0.38, 0.86
