Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:43:50 +0100 From: Cillian Sharkey <cillian@baker.ie> To: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sourcing local file from /etc/rc.firewall not working Message-ID: <37C25B46.B265AB4D@baker.ie> References: <XFMail.990823214457.conrads@home.com>
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> To suck in my own local ipfw rules, I added the following lines at > the end of /etc/rc.firewall: > > if [ -f /etc/rc.firewall.local ]; then > . /etc/rc.firewall.local > fi > > The file /etc/rc.firewall.local consists simply of a series of lines > in the form of: > > /sbin/ipfw add deny log all from some-ip:255.255.255.255 to any > > What's puzzling is that these lines are not being executed at boot > time, even though they work if I do ". /etc/rc.firewall" from the > command line. take a look at /etc/rc.conf (and /etc/defaults/rc.conf) you can specify a file containing firewall rules to load in the file contains rules like so : add deny log all from some-ip:255.255.255.255 to any etc. Cillian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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