From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 21:56: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D6937B401 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 21:55:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 341EA8A; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:55:35 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: Nathan Mace , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ipfw starts at boot-up Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 20:55:34 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20011002234121.27ffd120.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> In-Reply-To: <20011002234121.27ffd120.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20011003045535.341EA8A@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 02 October 2001 07:41 pm, Nathan Mace wrote: > i just compiled my kernel to include ipfw support....installed > it..restarted....it's 11:30PM here...the firewall is just a pet project > that i'm running on my personal machine...it can wait a few days. it's > set by default to deny all....i got it opened up enough to sent mail and > get on the net(duh or you wouldn't be reading this)....but my question > is....according to 'man rc.conf" i can add some options to the > /etc/rc.conf file like whether or not to start the firewall when the OS > boots...eventually i'll want it to..but not until i get it configured. > so i set that to no..and a few other options then i rebooted > > when it boots up is says that firewall_enable = "NO" is not a valid > command...basically along the lines that it doesn't know what to do with > it. what am i doing wrong? none of the options i entered concerning > the firewall to rc.conf file work...they all say what the 1st one does. > i've attached my rc.conf file...can someone look at it and maybe tell me > what i'm doing wrong? i found some doc's at www.onlamp.com and thats > what they do as well.....what do i do? > > thanks > nathan Take the spaces out of these lines: #firewall--ipfw firewall_enable = "NO" <------------ firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" firewall_type = "/root/ipfw.rules" <------------ firewall_quiet = "YES" <------------ log_in_vain = "YES" <--------------------- firewall_logging_enable = "YES" icmp_drop_redirect = "YES" <----------------- Beech -- Micro$oft: "Where can we make you go today?" ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - IT Manager - Instructor - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message