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Subject: Re: Running /etc/rc.firewall in the background
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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, running
ipfw rules shouldn't take more than a second or two.


> 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 there a way to do this at all?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Mark
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