The Wednesday 2004-12-01 at 10:59 -0500, Martin wrote:
I'm pretty sure my 8.2 system has firewall running. YaST says yes. I will now try to figure out what it does and how to tweak it. (which files, sources, logs, libs bins? where are they) It seems to be completely passive to the user.
If Yast says you do have the firewall, just use yast to configure it. It is pretty simple. Just leave everything closed (which is the default, I think). Don't forget to keep your security patches up to date (use YOU). Finally, for spam, I would recommend using SpamAssassin (it is included with SuSE) - ask in the standard list for help if needed; but first, search the archive, it has been asked thousand of times. Finally, read the SuSE manual book (paper preferable, but electronic otherwise), most of these things are explained there. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson