Re: [SLUG] Firewall

[Alan L Tyree <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:19:21 +0800
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)

Firestarter is a nice simple firewall.

> 
> 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. system -> administration -> services lists 8
> services from anacron to ssh. What about the zillion others?
> 
> Help shows not available pictures:
> each service []
> with a       []
> checkbox     []
> 
> Thanks
> James
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