Maybe you should send a copy of this to Jim Allchin and the other MS 
shills. Bill.  In fact, they might even try to use it in the Appellate 
Court case ::grin::

On Monday 26 February 2001 09:39, you wrote:
> >Why would you ever have to reboot?? (sorry for the wise ass remark just
> >couldn't resist.) <g>
>
> Actually I see this as one of the biggest down falls of linux in
> general. After having uptimes of several months with no maintance or
> reboots needed you never know what kind of fire wall rules, kernel
> customizations, deamons you started 6 months ago and such that are not
> going to come up on reboot. This can obviously open up several security
> holes that you thought were fixed.
>
> At least with Windows you get to test and make sure that yours servers
> are going to come back up daily.  (Sometimes more often than just
> daily.) I think that the kernel needs a few more hard locking bugs and
> perhaps a "blue screen of death" to really fit into the coorprate world.
>
> PS. If you couldn't see the sarcasm dripping off of all that please
> disregard the entire message.
> Thankyou
>
> >On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, cj wrote:
> >> I hope this question isn't beneath PLUG's members, but I'm still
> >> pretty newbie. I'm running the 2.4.0 kernel on Slackware 7.1. I'm
> >> trying to set up iptables as a firewall and have compiled all the
> >> modules into the kernel. I have a pretty good script (got it off the
> >> Web), but I can't figure out how to get it to run. If I type all the
> >> commands in the shell, they work fine, but when I reboot for any
> >> reason, they're gone; obviously, iptables works just fine. Slackware
> >> uses /etc/rc.d/rc.local to run script
>
>  just before or after going multiuser so I'd only be exposed fo a few
> seconds and have no other services (that I'm aware of) running; I've
> already shut down everything in inetd.conf. That being said, I don't
> know how to shell script in rc.local so I can call up my firewall
> script. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> >> CJ
> >
> >Carl Parrish
> >webmaster
> >www.carlparrish.com

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Jim

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