Re: iptables question

On Friday 03 March 2006 21:26, [email protected] wrote:
> I have two computers both running Fedora Core 4.  I recently came across
> GueardDog and decided to give it a try.  On the one computer everything
> seems fine.  On the second computer, I am having some oddities.
> 
> For example, if I run "service --status-all" it reports back that the
> firewall is stopped.  Running this on the working computer it will show
> the ruleset for the firewall.  

* Do not listen to what service has to say about Guarddog (or iptables for 
that matter). It is often wrong with these kinds of services (configuration 
services that don't actually have a matching daemon that runs).

* Do not use the iptables service. Disable it. It will interfere with 
Guarddog.

cheers,

-- 
Simon Edwards             | KDE-NL, Guidance tools, Guarddog Firewall
[email protected]       | http://www.simonzone.com/software/
Nijmegen, The Netherlands | "ZooTV? You made the right choice."


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