Sorry, I forgot to clarify myself. I'm running SuSE 7.3 Professional. I currently don't have any custom firewall rules in place. I only have holes punched through the firewall to let our scrificial host talk to the real hosts inside our network. I'm doing this using the "FW_FORWARD_MASQ=" line in '/etc/rc.config.d/firewall2.rc.config'. My question is, how do I restart the firewall to re-read that file. I tried 'SuSEfirewall2 stop/start' but it appears to only try to reload any custom firewall rules. Maybe I'm doing this the hard way. If any of you know a better way to do this, please let me know. Thanks again. -- Preston Kutzner | IT Manager Marketing Resources, Inc. This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of Marketing Resources, Inc. unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that Marketing Resources, Inc. monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

On Tuesday 11 June 2002 17:55, you wrote:

I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this to, but it's the closest one I could find on Suse's site. I have a question regarding reloading the Firewall2 scripts. Currently, whenever I make a change to my firewall scripts I restart the whole firewall. Is there a way to just reastart the firewall script itself, without having to restart the whole machine? Something like a "rcfirewall restart" command. Thanks in advance.

Well, exactly that (exept for the "2"): rcfirewall2 [re]start Maarten -- Maarten J. H. van den Berg ~~//~~ network administrator VBVB - Amsterdam - The Netherlands - http://vbvb.nl T +31204233288 F +31204233286 G +31651994273

GrdnWsl wrote:

I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this to, but it's the closest one I could find on Suse's site. I have a question regarding reloading the Firewall2 scripts. Currently, whenever I make a change to my firewall scripts I restart the whole firewall. Is there a way to just reastart the firewall script itself, without having to restart the whole machine? Something like a "rcfirewall restart" command. Thanks in advance.

Hi, try '/sbin/SuSEfirewall' this would reload your rules. By the way I have to add this to John's comment: I would say that I've never seen an easier and so flexible Firewall than SuSEFirewall. Believe me I configuerd a firewall by writing my own rules in a shell script (at a time where kernel 2.4 was new and iptables wasn't used to be supported). By, Robert Rottscholl - DE