iptables on warty

[wild madagascar]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 20:30 -0500, Kirtis Bakalarczyk wrote:
> I just created a script in /etc/init.d for it called iptables, then
> set it to start automatically.  You accomplish that by creating a link
> in /etc/rc2.d/ called something like S00iptables.  I'm assuming you
> want the firewall to start before everything else (so that your
> services aren't exposed before it starts), which is what the two zeros
> are for.
> 
> You can look at /etc/init.d/skeleton for the format of the init.d
> files, and i included mine as a sample.
> 

Thanks kirt, thanks Christoph,

Could get onto the net only now. Will check and test both of your
suggestion. Will let you know.

By the way, why can I run both iptables and iptables-save on Ubuntu but
no file is actually really save? Curiosity.

Didier