On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:52:29PM -0400, hysterion wrote:
Thanks for the advice - I've downloaded SuSEfirewall 4.8 from Marc's page, and will probably end up installing it. It's just that I was a bit more confident in my own ability to *uninstall* an .rpm, in case anything goes wrong :-) (Also, I felt not quite ready to use a "beta" for my first firewall experience.)
The number of files it install is actually very few. Just a handful. SuSEfirewall2 install six executable files and the docs/logs. Also, if you install it by hand while the rpm is installed, I'm pretty sure you will find it is still un-installable via rpm, or at the very least, you can install an rpm over it. Either way, there are just a handful of files :-)
The 7.1 distribution has a SuSEfirewall.rpm, but it's not so easy to figure out what version/files it contains, which kernel it supports, and what the dependencies are. Is this info readily available anywhere on the web, à la rpmfind? At least not in these natural places,
You could always download it from SuSE and take a look with kpackage before installing ;) The SuSEfirewall.rpm on my 7.1 CD is version 4.3.1 and supports the 2.2.x kernel with ipchains. It is the same as the version on Marc's page, only a few months older.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/7.1/full-names/ppc/ or http://suse.de/en/produkte/susesoft/ppc/Pakete/SuSEfirewall.html
(I hope I don't come across as a whiner for deploring this. Of course, *now* that my Linux box is online, I can find out all this information by ftping an rpm query, but this kind of assumes that all problems have already been solved, right? Also it seems to assume that I dug the German database, http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/de/html/sm_masq2.html, to find out that the 7.0 "firewals.rpm" has become "SuSEfirewall.rpm" in 7.1.)
Because the firewall is architecture independent, it is in the dir. : /pub/suse/ppc/7.1/full-names/noarch/SuSEfirewall-4.3-9.noarch.rpm Good luck ;) -- http://www.josswinn.org