[plug] Mandrake Fire wall

[Craig Ringer]

> 1st On install it some values are written in like the gateway address 
> once it is punched in I cant seem to change it through the menu system 
> (once rebooted and all is happy) so I thought I would log in as root ... 
> well can I can use route to change the default and as such alter it but 
> only when the system is running on reboot it goes back to the  original 
> version :(

Yeah. "route add" etc is all in-kernel settings only, so it won't be 
remembered across reboots. Perhaps there's a config file you can edit, 
maybe /etc/sysconfig/network ?

> 2nd I tried to do a backup and alter the gateway in the text file but 
> upon restoring the file to the system it completely fell over in a 
> screaming heap upon restore  :( I did use notepad to alter the backup 
> file maybe thats it but I should think not... Can anyone shed some light 
> on this?

Generally, you'll want to use vi or some other UNIX text editor to 
modifiy config files. Notepad will insert <CR><LF> line endings, which 
may confuse some programs reading the config file.

How did it misbehave anyway? refuse to route packets, refuse to boot, etc?

Craig Ringer