On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, struth <struthm8@gmail.com> wrote:-

I am trying to track down David Bolt through this list as I sa in the archives that he had got suse 10.1 and firestarter to work together.

I got it to compile and install. As to working together, I personally don't know how well they work. Originally, I built the packages for a friend who was using SUSE and liked the look of firestarter. Why, I don't know. Probably because he didn't like the syntax for iptables, or he just wanted a click-and-drool^H^H^H^H^Hgo interface.

The below is a copy of my post to a forum:- I have been having problems getting Firestarter to work well with 10.1. I have tried the 9.? rpm and it seemed to act as a firewall ok but the events page never had anything in it. So I went to try and install it from source but the config kept telling me that I was missing old gnome files.

Do you have the Gnome development libraries installed? More importantly, do you have both libuser and usermode installed? If you haven't, and are building them from source RPMs, you need to build and install in this order: 1, libuser Once the RPMs are built, install both libuser and libuser-devel 2, usermode Once the RPMs are built, you can install just usermode or usermode and usermode-gtk. 3, firestarter Once the RPMs are built, install firestarter.

Is there any advance on the firestarter and 10.1 front?

Not from me there hasn't. I hadn't actually intended to become a maintainer for the package. It was purely built to figure out why a friend couldn't build it himself. I do know that they will build on 10.1, or the versions I grabbed do, since I've started using a 64bit 10.1 system as my default build system and used that to check.

Or can someone point to a better firewall that works fine with 10.1?

SuSEfirewall, which is basically just a front-end to iptables[0]. Or there's always talking directly with iptables itself. Personally,

The YAST one that is included, I can't get to allow specific addresses and I don't really want to learn all about iptables.

[0] I said basically a front-end although it's more of a limited "plain english" to iptables translator. You tell it what you want to do and it translates it so iptables does what you want. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1GB WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256MB SuSE 9.3 | A3010 4MB RISCOS 3.11 AMD2600(64) 512MB SUSE 10.0 | AMD2400 768MB SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4MB RISCOS 3.11 AMD2800(64) 512MB SUSE 10.1 | RPC600 129MB RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14MB TOS 4.02 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org