Re: [SLUG] Firewall

[Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+slug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jam@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi
> my ongoing frustrations:
> 
> 1) How to setup a firewall in ubuntu? It seems suitable iptables settings do 
> work but that's awefully primitive. This article did not help
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259 (no lokkit or guarddog 
> can be found by apt-get)

If you enable universe you can get these:

    erikd > apt-cache search guarddog
    guarddog - firewall configuration utility for KDE
    guidedog - NAT/masquerading/port-forwarding configuration tool for KDE
    erikd > apt-cache search lokkit  
    gnome-lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (GNOME interface)
    lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console interface)


> 2) How to manipulate and configure services. I CAN and have been 
> sym-linking /etc/init.d/service to rc2.d/SNNservice. That too is awefully 
> primitive.

Yes. For a commandline way of doing this on Debian/Ubuntu try
update-rc.d. I'm pretty sure there are gui tools for this as well.

Erik
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