Start Firestarter at boot

IBall · 04-23-2004, 10:13 AM

I installed Firestarter on Slack 9.1, and ran the wizard to set up my firewall.

Is it possible to load this at system start up, as currently I have to start the firewall manually??
If so how.

Also, I connect to the internet using an ADSL router. I selected the option that "IP address is assigned using DHCP, which it is" However I get the error message

Quote:

No DHCP client config found
The firewall will not be loaded automatically on a lease renewal

How can I fix this problem?

Thanks in advance
Ian

netcrawl · 04-23-2004, 10:39 AM

To start Firestarter at start of gnome or KDE: Edit-Preferences: check "Start firewall on program startup"

Can't help you with the DHCP issue, but I don't think it's a major problem if you reboot before lease renewal, but someone else will know, I'm sure.

Hope this helps a bit...

Nis · 04-24-2004, 02:10 AM

Do a 'slocate firewall.sh' and it probably be either /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh or /usr/etc/firestarter/firewall.sh (I'll assume the former). Then do below as root

Code:

cd /etc/rc.d
ln -sf /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh rc.firewall

Now the firewall script will be executed at boot which means all your iptable rules will be set. You'll need to run Firestarter manually or by netcrawl's suggestion above, but at least now the firewall will be loaded automatically.

IBall · 04-24-2004, 03:38 AM

Thanks for your help
--Ian