On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:55:06PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: > I'm trying to call an external file in a bash firewall script on my Debian > system. The external file is /etc/ban_list. I tried this without success: > > for site in /etc/ban_list; do > iptables -A banned_site -s site -j DROP > done > > Can someone show me the right way to call in parameters to a script from > an external file?
Umm, is "banned_site" a parameter to iptables or a variable? for site in $(cat /etc/ban_list); do iptables -A banned_site -s $site -j DROP done -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
