Iptables not saving...

[wld]

On 5/7/06, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/23/06, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The reason I want the chains saved, is because I'm uning sshdblackd
> > (http://www.sshblack.com) to block failed ssh attempts on my box
> >
> > Here is everything that I did manually...
[snip]
> >
> > [root at mars ~]# cat /etc/cron.hourly/iptables.cron
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /sbin/iptables-save >/dev/null 2>&1
[snip]

So, your cron script just put your rules to a kitchen sink :)
Did you RTFM? iptables-save outputs current rules to stdin.
If you want them to be saved, redirect output not to
/dev/null but /etc/sysconfig/iptables .
Be careful and keep copy of this file because if you change
configuration in system-config-securitylevel dialog, all manual
rules will be lost.
HTH.

By the way, if I remember correctly, someone in this
thread give this advice already. I'm lazy to reread all messages :)

V.Rudenko
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