slackware 10 startup script
 

hey guys,

i was wondering how i could make my shell script containing iptables commands startup at boot. there are no rc1.d...rc5.d directories and i have tried putting the commands into rc.local but its not starting up for some reason.

could anyone help me with this, thanks.

Actually Slackware usually has a rc.firewall script you can have rc.M call upon that I'm sure you place your iptables or firewall rules into. I'd suggest trying that first.

slackware 10
 

Hello jonc

You will find that /etc/rc.d/rc/inet2 has some script in it that will start your iptables script, if you name the iptables script you created rc.firewall.

Also, you need to place your rc.firewall script in /etc/rc.d and make it executable.

Doing that will make your script start automatically at the right time of the boot process.

I don't know who created the default rc scripts, but they did a great job. (is it Patrick Volkerding?)

Good Luck