Preston Crawford me@prestoncrawford.com wrote:
Okay, here you lost me. Are you saying we run /etc/sysconfig/iptables at boot for the various runlevels?
Er, /etc/init.d/iptables (which will use /etc/sysconfig/iptables) at the various boot-levels, yes. E.g., # chkconfig --level 2345 iptables on
/etc/sysconfig/iptables is not a directly executable script, it's a config file with pseudo (and quite incomplete) iptables lines and other info.
It is written (from the rules in memory) when you run: # sysconfig iptables save