Thanx Matt, Mark and Aristotle. I ran each line of the script from the console and when I got to the problematic line I got: Unknown arg '--state' In 'iptables help' there is no '--state' option. Here is the section of the script: # (2) user-defined chain for ACCEPTED TCP packets iptables -N okay iptables -A okay -p TCP --syn -j ACCEPT iptables -A okay -p TCP -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A okay -p TCP -j DROP Is there another command I could instead of '--state'? It is used in further parts of the script as well. Kind regards Gun Caundle GunCom Computing Services 77 Maniapoto St. Otorohanga ph/fax 07 873 6575 gun(a)guncom.co.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Brown" <matt(a)mattb.net.nz> To: "Waikato Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [wlug] Firewall script problem
Hi Gun,
On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 12:27, Gun Caundle wrote:
Thanx Perry I inserted the '--state' but I still get the same error message; even when I insert a # at the beginning of the line and run it again! I'm using PICO text editor and saving it with a different name after modifying the script. Any other suggestions Kind regards Gun Caundle
It sounds like you may have a syntax error or something in your shell script, try executing each command in the script directly from a console, if they all work that you can focus on looking for syntax errors.
If you are still having problems, perhaps you could put the script on a webpage somewhere we could have a look at it. If you can't do that just email about 5 lines either side of the problematic statement.
Regards
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