Re: Start Up Script

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:55:30 -0600, 
"James A. Pattie" <james@pcxperience.com> wrote in message 
<3E676F72.1060702@pcxperience.com>:

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> Brian Bunnell wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Thank you very much for helping me.  I have a perfectly good
> > netfilter script that I run from the command line and everything
> > works fine.  I
> would
> > like this script to run when I boot up the computer.  I am having a
> > lot of trouble finding quality resources on the net about this.
> >
> > There are great resources for learning how to use netfilter. 
> > However,
> when
> > it comes to startup scripts, all the examples seem to be 25 pages
> > long and incomprehensible or wnat me to completely rewrite the
> > script I already
> have.
> >
> > Why can't I just tell the computer to run my script instead of the
> "Let the
> > world in" script it runs at boot?
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendations, resources or better yet, a
> > good concise example for run level 3?
> 
> If you are on a chkconfig/sysv system just add the necessary chkconfig
> entries to the top of your script, drop it in /etc/init.d and
> chkconfig{script name} on.  Make sure you disable the iptables scripts
> if on a redhat box.
> 
> The PCX Firewall project will generate a redhat init script.
> http://pcxfirewall.sf.net/  Use that for examples on how to modify
> your script.

..the classic bsd approach is move your script to /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall 
and call it from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, just before rc.local runs you
online at boot time.

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