- Original Message -
From: "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Running /etc/rc.firewall in the background
> At 01:16 PM 9.11.2003 GMT, M
hmmm... /etc/rc.firewall is not an executable script. You should start with
this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls.html
If you have the necessary options in your kernel, you can make it start vi
rc.conf or a simple sh script placed in a startup dir. Eitherway, ru
At 01:16 PM 9.11.2003 GMT, Mark wrote:
>I have quite a few firewall rules (FreeBSD 4.7R). This causes the server
>start-up to take several minutes extra. I wanted to have the rules loaded in
>the background; like so:
>
>firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall &"
>
>But, alas, that does not work. :( Is th
