Re: iptables does not support chkconfig!

[Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us>]

On Monday 23 December 2002 02:01 am, Silkk wrote:
> I looked in
> /sbin/   for iptables and nothing soo i did whereis iptables
> /usr/local/sbin/iptables  /usr/local/lib/iptables
>
> Im not sure where the iptables executable file went?
> casue in
> /usr/local/sbin/iptables i tryed to veiw that file using vi
> and it is a special chractors like
> &8$#
> soo is that the file i need?

/usr/local/sbin/iptables sounds reasonable.  Try invoking it as 
"/usr/local/sbin/iptables -V" to check version and make sure everything 
makes sense.

j

> --- Joel Newkirk <netfilter@newkirk.us> wrote:
> > On Monday 23 December 2002 01:26 am, Silkk wrote:
> > > Here is the error message im getting i found it in
> > > /var/log/boot.log firewall: /etc/rc3.d/s80 firewall: iptables:
> > > command not found last message repeated 71 times
> >
> > Try changing "iptables" to "/sbin/iptables" or whatever path it
> > actually lives on.  (that's the one for an RPM install under RedHat,
> > I believe) You can't count on a script having valid paths set up
> > during the system startup, play it safe and be explicit.
> >
> > j
> >
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