[sclug] Firewalls

[tim]

Can anyone help - I'm sure it is a simple question.

I am working through Bob Ziegler's Firewall book.
On page 115 (If you have it) He says Do not attempt to invoke specific
iptables reules from the command line.
On the previous page he had pointed to a shell script
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall

He says to execute the shell script from the console.

What does this mean ? I have looked thru the firewall HOW-TO and that does
not mention it which makes me think that it is very basic stuff
that I just haven't twigged.
My thoughts are to start a shell by running bash fromthe command line, but
1. I thought the command line was bash 2. That still does not explain the
/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall which does not exist on my system .

Any help would be much appreciated - thanks


Tim Holmes
tim at holmes.name
07881 784876
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