Re: [pmfirewall] installation question

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From: Joseph Haig (jhaig@maths.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 19 2000 - 02:53:01 PST


On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 chronos0@linuxfreemail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> Question-
> How do I setup the pointman firewall ? I understand its a tarball and
> all. What commands do I type in to get it setup ? Like tar -xvzf
> nameoftarball tar.gz or something else ?

Yes, use:

$ tar -zxvf pmfirewall-1.1.4.tar.gz

(assuming that you have downloaded the file pmfirewall-1.1.4.tar.gz).

> Then what about setting up allthe rules ? I read the man page and its
> good and all, but Im really new to all this and need more explicit
> instructions.

The file 'INSTALL', which you should find when you un-tar the package,
gives step by step instructions to set up the firewall. Basically, for a
first try, run:

$ sh install.sh

and follow all the prompts - if in doubt, answer the default option
to the questions. This should do all the setting up that you need.

By the way, I am also really new to this and I found it a lot easier to
install than several other packages.

Bye,

Joe.

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