Script Execution

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at att.net
Tue Nov 30 16:55:28 UTC 2004


edwarner99 at yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I asked about this a few months ago but never got it
>resolved.
>I'm running Firestarter as my firewall. (Yes, I've
>asked the Firestarter users; no resolve). When my
>network is re-started or when my IPS refreshes my IP
>address (it is static); I have to manually restart the
>firewall.
>
>Firestarter is supposed to restart by itself when my
>pppoe dsl re-starts via ip-up.local. It does not.
>I have placed a piece of code a user sent that would
>show when and if the file was executed by logging in
>the system log. It shows that ip-up.local is executed
>but I still have to manually re-start.
>
>I have sh /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh start in my
>ip-up.local file.
>
>Does anyone have a suggestion as how I could further
>troubleshoot this problem?
>Thanks for your help. 
>  
>
I see the same behavior with FC-2. I routinely click on Firestarter Start
once the ATT dial up connects. It seems that nothing gets through until
I click start although although it says "firewall running?"

Bob Goodwin,  Zuni, Virginia




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