What is it?
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This small distribution of scripts allows you to use compiled fwbuilder
scripts and run them automatically on system startup. It does so, by
providing a firewall service, which integrates into the service
infrastructure of SuSE. The predecessor of this package was developed
under 7.X and maintained under 8.X, this version was developed
under 9.3


Installing
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0ptionally follow the HOWTO "How to use built-in policy installer in
Firewall Builder 2.0" (http://www.fwbuilder.org/archives/cat_howtos.html#000156)
and create user and group "fwadmin" before you install firewall-initscript.

If you got the tarball, copy it to .../SOURCES and build the RPM by
rpmbuild -ta --target noarch SOURCES/firewall-initscript-1.1.0.suse.tar.gz

If you got the src.rpm, copy it to .../SRPMS and build the RPM by
rpmbuild --rebuild --target noarch SRPMS/firewall-initscript-1.1.0.suse.src.rpm

If you got the rpm install it by
rpm --install --test firewall-initscript-1.1.0.suse.noarch.rpm && yast -i firewall-initscript-1.1.0.suse.noarch.rpm

Activate or deactivate the firewall on boot by "chkconfig firewall [on_or_off]"


The rpm install performs the following tasks:
* Create directory /etc/firewall/ (home of compiled fwbuilder script)
* Install sysconfig file to /etc/sysconfig/firewall
* Install firewall service into /etc/init.d/

You have to copy your firewall script to '/etc/firewall/'
and rename it to "$(uname -n).fw".


Changes
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The changes according to version 1.21 of the script for SuSE 7.1/7.2
are the following:
* Rewrite of fw_install for SuSE 8.x service framework
  - Installation of firewall.sysconfig to /etc/sysconfig/firewall
  - Creating runlevel symlinks via 'insserv firewall'
  - Creating symling /usr/sbin/rcfirewall
* Rewrite of firewall for SuSE 8.x service framework
  - Removed usage of /tmp/version
  - Added variable fw_script, which points to fw rules file
  - Reload now allows to run $fw_script without stopping (safer)
* Added firewall.sysconfig file
* README rewritten
* Added fw_uninstall script
* Rewrite, rename and package firewall-install for SuSE 9.3


Authors
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Christian Barmala http://www.barmala.de/
	Rewrite, rename and package firewall-install for SuSE 9.3
Andreas Hochsteger <e9625392@student.tuwien.ac.at>
	Author of the modified scripts for SuSE 8.1
olaf.zenker@t-systems.de
	Author of the original scripts for SuSE 7.1/7.2
