On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 17:21 +0300, peter kostov wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 23:24 +0100, Paul Ward wrote: > > If you use iptables remember to use the iptables-save to keep your > > changes when you are happy it works. > Yes, today I noticed that the changes I made yesterday are not saved > after the computer was shut down. I made the same changes again and > changed the line: > IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_STOP="no" > to > IPTABLES_SAVE_ON_STOP="yes" > in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config > > The other way to do the same, I think is: > services iptables save > > I think, iptables-save does only a backup, that if written to a file > can be used with iptables-restore to get to the saved state again. Well, if you do "iptables-save >/etc/sysconfig/iptables", then the next reboot will restore them as the iptables startup script executes an iptables-restore command using /etc/sysconfig/iptables as the data source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - If this is the first day of the rest of my life... - - I'm in BIG trouble! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
