On 20 Jan 2003 10:10:16 -0500 Thomas Beasley <beesknees@earthlink.net> wrote:
Hi,
I am a registered SuSE 7.2 Pro user, who has been learning Linux now for close to two years (I started with SuSE 6.4 - also registered - in May 2000). Hopefully, I'm not the only one still using 7.2. I just need to discover how to activate my firewall.When loading, the install information indicates that my firewall is installed but not activated, so I've made some progress. How do I finish the job and activate it?
I'm trying to recall from memeory about 7.2. Boy, how quick one can forget. :-) In 7.2, I think there was a setting in yast, system configuration to "START_FIREWALL", then if you had Susefirewall2 installed it would automatically be used instead of the Personal Firewall. It was in the /etc/rc.config file IIRC. Then in /etc/rc.config.d you edited the firewall2.rc.config script to adjust the firewall. There were some examples too in doc/packages. The script is pretty much self documenting though, unless you are trying something fancy. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation