default startup order for firewall and yum-updateonboot

[Jason Montleon]

I take that back.  I'm a dum**** ;)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Montleon" <monty19 at hotmail.com>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 10:19 PM
Subject: default startup order for firewall and yum-updateonboot


> The default startup order has firestarter starting up after 
> yum-updateonboot (both from Fedora Linux Extras.)  If you haven't booted 
> up the system in awhile, and yum-updateonboot is taking a considerable 
> amount of time updating,, you are vulnerable for the entire time 
> yum-updateonboot is working.
>
> I have had my system updating for over an hour a few times in the last 
> couple weeks while booting, and if say, the system were vulnerable to a 
> rapidly spreading worm on the internet, you would be unecessarilly exposed 
> for that entire time, whereas if firestarter came up first, you would at 
> least have a reasonable chance of being protected by your firewall policy 
> while the system is updating.
>
> Cpl Montleon
> USMC
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