On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 16:40 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2005-12-22 at 08:10 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
Not really. One of the drawbacks of a GUI not programmed to use all of the features of a program. Perhaps SuSEFirewall2 needs to be redone to support -all- of the features of iptables and -not- just enough to get by as quite a few GUIs in linux do. One of the reasons linux is not being adopted as fast as once was thought.
SuSEFirewall is not a gui.
There is a GUI frontend to use SuSEFirewall, as a part of YaST, and that's all. You have the real plain text configuration in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2
This I fully understand and should have been more specific about using YaST2 to do the configuration. How many windows users will -not- make the switch because there is not a good gui to fully configure app XXX? Current windows users are so used to using -only- a gui program to config "app x" that they will get totally lost trying to use the command line to do so. And remember that there has been enough time now that a lot of people have never used a command line in windows and would not know how to get to one if their life depended on it. Sure the command line can, for the most part, be easier but as in most things it is only easier when you know how and not before hand. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998