Further adventures in Firewall upgrades

Lucas Peet lpeet at eccod.com
Mon Apr 8 20:13:06 CDT 2002


One think I forgot, also need to remove S**killall...

> I've heard of running a firewall in a "halted" stat, but haven't tried it
so
> far.  I'm not sure what it means to "halt the machine".  shutdown -h now?
> telinit 0?

Just 'halt' should do it for ya.

> Don't you loose logging if you do that?

Yes, unless you also remove K**syslogd...

> Thinking on this, with a live machine you can run timed scripts to do
things
> like allow connections from The Office, but only between 8:00 and 5:00
> 'cause otherwise the office is closed.

And maybe remove K**crond.

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