From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 12 10:17:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA04534 for current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:17:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04520 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:16:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA24249; Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:16:42 GMT (envelope-from kuku) Message-ID: <19980212181642.44127@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:16:42 +0000 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Studded Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rc.network - ipfw l 65535 | grep deny ? References: <199802121203.MAA23164@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <34E3398E.DAF4EAC@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <34E3398E.DAF4EAC@dal.net>; from Studded on Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 10:03:58AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 10:03:58AM -0800, Studded wrote: > Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > > Could someone explain to me what the line 84 means? > > I believe this is bogus. > > > > if ipfw l 65535 | grep deny; then > > > > # $Id: rc.network,v 1.16 1998/02/07 04:56:56 alex Exp $ > > That line is checking to determine whether the default rule is "deny" > or "accept." an important distinction if you're going to warn people > that IP services are disabled. :) yeah, but when I type ipfw l 65535 in the command line (sh prompt) I'm getting an error about bad arguments and a 'usage' message. Am I using the wrong ipfw or what's wrong here? > > Hope this helps, > > Doug > > -- > *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** > *** Proud operator, designer and maintainer of the world's largest > *** Internet Relay Chat server. 5,328 clients and still growing. > *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message