How can I make guarddog retain changes through reboot?

M$ISBS · 07-01-2006, 06:53 PM

Slackware 10.2, Xfce
I use Guarddog GUI for iptables. Is there a way to make it startup at boot?

crash88 · 07-02-2006, 01:38 AM

I use a rc.firewall script in /etc/rc.d
rc.inet2 checks for that script and runs it if it's there. As for guarddog, I guess you could script what you need in rc.firewall to have the program run on startup as you need.

win32sux · 07-02-2006, 01:44 AM

if the program has a "save" feature, then it probably calls "iptables-save", which would indeed save your settings across reboots... what makes you think it's not saving changes?? keep in mind that once iptables settings are saved, your guarddog won't need to be running anymore...

you can check your iptables settings before and after reboot with a:

Code:

iptables -L

M$ISBS · 07-04-2006, 12:48 PM

Thanks but ive got another problem. When I run guarddog and click apply to save the changes, I get Gawk command not found. What does that mean?

win32sux · 07-04-2006, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by M$ISBS

Thanks but ive got another problem. When I run guarddog and click apply to save the changes, I get Gawk command not found. What does that mean?

it means you need to install gawk...

check your distro's cds, it's probably there...

EDIT: wait, you're using slackware 10.2... then yeah, it's *definitely* on the CDs... it's on CD #1... or download the package from here:

ftp://ftp.oregonstate.edu/pub/slackw...1.5-i486-1.tgz

M$ISBS · 07-04-2006, 04:53 PM

Thanks.