Where do I put it?

The Vaxorcist · 2005-12-08 23:53:03

I want to copy my script for setting up my firewall with iptables to my arch system, except, where do I put it? I was looking around, and I figure I should create my own initscript, call it iptables, and have it do its stuff in there. What do you think?
Is there a better or more elegant solution?

I'm new here, so, hello.

saintshakajin · 2005-12-09 00:10:20

Personally, I've done a script with iptables and put a line in /etc/rc.local to execute it.
You can do an initscript too if you want but it takes more time to do it.

The Vaxorcist · 2005-12-09 00:16:55

Yeah, I could do that, but I don't mind doing the extra work if the result is more elegant. I was also trying to avoid doing just what you did.

cactus · 2005-12-09 00:29:20

pacman -Sy iptables

write your firewall config script. run it.
check your rules.
then. /etc/rc.d/iptables save
the table definitions are saved in the /etc/iptables folder by the way.

put iptables in your DAEMONS array, right before network, and you are golden.

on startup, iptables "daemon" simply loads the saved tables definition..

The Vaxorcist · 2005-12-09 22:19:10

Thanks, I did that, but I modified the initscript so it runs my own script instead of just loading the saved rules. Just saving the rules would work, except I already have a script that sets it up, and that script has about ten of echo 1 > /proc/foo/bar/bas

cactus · 2005-12-09 22:29:35

mine does too, but I use the sysctl.conf file to set those subsequently.
/me shrugs
one less thing to do on my own, and since sysctl gets run anyway...

a place for everything, and everything in its place.

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#1 2005-12-08 23:53:03

Where do I put it?

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