iptables & PATH

[Craig White]

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> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:35 PM
> To: michael@schweppe.org
> Cc: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: iptables & PATH
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>
> well,
> unless I miss my guess, IPTABLES is located in /sbin.
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no - on RH7.1 your guess is correct
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> if you are creating a script, I would recommend using the
> entire path to iptables on each line
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> (such as: /sbin/iptables <rule here>)
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indeed, shell scripts do not necessarily pick up the user paths - especially
if they are run as part of a startup script - thus no user is really
executing the script.
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> and then run it as rc.firewall.
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this is a bit iffy since default install of ipchains on RH7.1 will look in
/etc/sysconfig for a file called iptables. There is the configuration file.
Apparently, it will not run iptables if there are ipchains rulesets - only
one or the other but not both at the same time (makes sense to me).

Up until now, I have located a file in /etc/rc.d called rc.firewall and
launched it with chkconfig registered service that I called firewall in
/etc/rc.d/init.d. While you can apply this logic with iptables, the conf
file is defaulted to /etc/sysconfig so YMMV.

Craig