Bug 7752 – Add a "save rules" feature to iptables init script?

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jason Costomiris 2002-09-10 10:50:03 UTC]

I recommend adding this to the /etc/init.d/iptables script:

save() {
        ebegin "Saving iptables state"
                /sbin/iptables-save > ${IPTABLES_SAVE}
        eend $?
}

and change the 2nd einfo line in the start() function to suggest they run this
same script with the "save" parameter.  This way, if you make future changes to
your rules without iptables running, it's a bit easier to save the rules - and
you'll never fat-finger the pathname to your ${IPTABLES_SAVE} file.

Just a thought...

[Comment 1 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-01-07 06:48:13 UTC]

Sorry, not possible. The initscripts doesn't support extra commands to be called from 
the command prompt. 

[Comment 2 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 06:31:05 UTC]

reopening... 
 

[Comment 3 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 06:35:43 UTC]

*** Bug 13459 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 06:37:20 UTC]

Martin, runscript.sh must be modified to accept other arguments than start stop etc..  
I'm leavin the decision if and on how to handle this to you. 

[Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 14:17:09 UTC]

Aliz, it already have the feature.  Checkout the latest bind rc-scipt (or named), 
and let on the $opts variable ...

[Comment 6 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-01-09 03:47:03 UTC]

Readded save() to iptables init script.