Red Hat 7.3 and your script

Red Hat 7.3 and your script

[Gustavo Marrero]

Dear iptables guru:

My name is Gus. I am currently attempting to switch from ipchains (came with 
red hat) to iptables. I copied your script
http://www.sentry.net/~obsid/IPTables/rc.scripts.dir/current/ (dual-home)
and saved it in:
/etc/sysconfig
modified it to my ip addresses and locations.
For some reason or another I just cannot hit (after 10's of hours of 
research) why it is not working.
(ps. I am running the dual-homed firewall).
This is what I get when booting. I did disable ipchains etc. I get the error 
for what ever I place in the first line of the script.Your help will greatly 
be appreciated.

Bad argument `IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables'
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information.
                                                           [FAILED]

Please let me know if there is anything else I can do. Thanks a million.

Gus

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Re: Red Hat 7.3 and your script

[Michael]

You don't save the iptables script in /etc/sysconfig...
Redhat has a feature to save iptables current settings. It saves those 
setting in /etc/sysconfig   . It is a particular format, and is not a 
shell script of any description.

Here is what to do (With your script saved in a file called 
"firewallscript":

As root,
chmod +x firewallscript
./firewallscript
service iptables save

Cheers,
Michael


Gustavo Marrero wrote:

> Dear iptables guru:
>
> My name is Gus. I am currently attempting to switch from ipchains 
> (came with red hat) to iptables. I copied your script
> http://www.sentry.net/~obsid/IPTables/rc.scripts.dir/current/ (dual-home)
> and saved it in:
> /etc/sysconfig
> modified it to my ip addresses and locations.
> For some reason or another I just cannot hit (after 10's of hours of 
> research) why it is not working.
> (ps. I am running the dual-homed firewall).
> This is what I get when booting. I did disable ipchains etc. I get the 
> error for what ever I place in the first line of the script.Your help 
> will greatly be appreciated.
>
> Bad argument `IPTABLES="/sbin/iptables'
> Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more 
> information.
>                                                           [FAILED]
>
> Please let me know if there is anything else I can do. Thanks a million.
>
> Gus
>
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>
>
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