From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 23: 4: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA0337BBE7; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:04:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA53040; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:04:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <392B70D0.927881A4@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:04:00 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0523 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Jim Freeze , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can I affect changes in rc.firewall w/o rebooting? References: <20000524022109.OOEH22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > On 24-May-00 Jim Freeze wrote: > > The title says it all. > > > > I have recently added ipfw to my system and have customized > > /etc/rc.firewall. However, I cannot seem to get these rules updated > > without rebooting. And, I have been unsuccessful in my searches for this > > information. > > > > If anyone knows, I would appreciate the tip. > > Thanks > > You can use ipfw to update the rules manually, > or just type 'sh /etc/rc.firewall' at a shell > prompt _on_ _the_ _console_. If you do this > remotely over a net connection it won't work > unless you direct all output to /dev/null. Or use the default to accept option in the kernel. I realize that for "serious" firewalls this is not an option, but it's very useful for less stringent uses of ipfw. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message