On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Patrick Goetz <pgo...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: >> Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems >> From: Brian Vaughan <bgvaug...@gmail.com> >> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:53:30 -0700 >> >> I'd like to see a good overview of Ubuntu's startup process. I just took >> a class on Unix/Linux system administration, and we spent quite some >> time on system startup and shutdown -- but mostly in terms of Sys V init >> scripts and runlevels. I'm clueless about upstart and plymouth. > > Recently I've been trying to find out if there is a canonical (no pun > intended) way of setting up iptables firewall rules on Ubuntu. We have > various (some relatively complicated) iptables scripts that need to be > migrated with newer server installs, and ufw looks too elementary. > Besides, these scripts are already written and debugged -- I just want > to run what we have, but in such a way as work smoothly with recent > ubuntu releases. Currently we have the firewall rules in a "tables" > script in /etc/init.d and then link to it in /etc/rc2.d as per the usual > Debian convention.
Why don't you create a .conf in /etc/init to call your iptables script with the same start and stop stanzas as ufw.conf.? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
