Quoting Ben Bargabus (ben_b at ppdonline.com): > Hello, > I've been messing around with iptables and ip aliasing on a redhat 7.2 > box and everything seems to be coming together but whenever I reboot all > my changes go away when the startup scripts are run. Anyway there are > about a million places that startup information is being stored so I'm > wondering where each of my statements should go. Is there a good source > online (HOWTO, faq, etc...) that describes what goes where and the order > in which things should happen? % man iptables-save save the output to /etc/sysconfig/iptables (at least under Redhat) Start up files are -all- in 1 place, /etc/rc.d/init.d Config files are -all- in /etc (stock redhat) or subdirectories in /etc -- Minneapolis St. Paul Twin Cities MN | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org Minnesota Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9