Arno's Firewall: How To Start At Boot?

[sakiZ]

Feeling in a tweaking kind of mood, I started messing with Arno's Firewall scripts.

I got it installed and can run it when I type

/etc/init.d/rc.iptables start

It seems to work great when I go to hackerwatcher.com and have my ports probed. Yippee!!

I want to run it at boot up but have not been able to.

To start this at boot he suggests:

Debian: Put rc.iptables in "/etc/init.d/" and create a softlink to it in "/etc/rcS.d/"
(eg. "ln -s /etc/init.d/rc.iptables /etc/rcS.d/S99iptables")

I did this from the console and did not get any error messages. However, I'm not getting it to activate at boot up.

Can anyone help me with this?

sakiZ

[sakiZ]

I simply put the start command into the bootmisc.sh file:

"/etc/init.d/rc.iptables start"

/etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

Now it starts automagically at boot.

sakiZ