Hi all!

I recently installed firestarter using the tar package not the RPM (which I had problems with)

The firewall works great but I cannot get it to start automatically on boot.

I know that firestarter saves its configuration to /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh and I know that this should be inserted into rc.local to get the script to run on startup...

Problem is that in rc.local the internet connection is starting up *just before* the line to start the firewall. (using pppd call command)

I think what is happening is that my firewall is starting before my internet connection (ppp0) has connected (it takes around 20 sec to connect to my ISP using the pppd call adsl command ).

I think this is why I can run the script manually after booting but not automatically.

In short is there anyway I can make the fire wall script activate ONLY AFTER the connection is up and running for sure!

Or maybe there is another solution!

Thanks in advance

I use Debian which is slightly different in that it does not use rc.local but I found the solution was to do a symlink. The Debian system uses rcx.d directories instead rc.local. If the script is in /etc/firewall then;
ln -s /etc/firewall/rc.firewall /etc/rcx.d/S90rc.firewall

Another option would be to put a "sleep 90" on the line before your firestarter startup command. Change 90 to the number of seconds delay you want.

Thanks everyone for their suggestions

I'll give the sleep option a try! Sounds very easy to implement and I was orginally looking for something like this. So it seems ideal!

Thanks again!