Re: slimserver and firewall

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On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 23:08 -0500, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> 
> >root@PuteA Mon Feb 06 16:11:48
> >[268] /home/magnusg $ iptables -I INPUT -s 192.168.1.0/24 -p udp --dport
> >9000 -j ACCEPT
> >
> >Entering "iptables-save" before rebooting doesn't work; "iptables-save
> >-c" as it says in the "Red Hat Linux Bible" doesn't work either.  What's
> >the right command here, in FC4?

"service iptables save"
This does work to save the tables to /etc/sysconfig/iptables for me.


> >
> >Thanks again for the help.
> >Jerry
> >
> >  
> >
> You have choices.  First of all iptables-save does work, but it writes 
> by default to stdout, not to /etc/sysconfig/iptables which is the rule 
> file loaded by the iptables service upon startup.  So you could redirect 
> output from the command to that file:
> 'iptables-save >/etc/sysconfig/iptables'
> 
> Second you could tell the iptables service script to save it for you:
> 'service iptables save'
> 
> Or third, you could edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables yourself to insert the 
> lines
> # Permit access to slimserver
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 192.168.1.0/24 -p udp --dport 9000 -j ACCEPT
> 
> right below the line:
> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
> 
> The latter method will preserve comments in that file, while the first 
> two methods will destroy them.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -- 
>    "Spend less!  Do more!  Go Open Source..." -- Dirigo.net
>    Chris Johnson, RHCE #804005699817957
> 


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