Mandrake MNF

[Brian Kelsay]

Jeffrey Cady wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I am new to this group and fairly new to Linux in general. I have been
> playing around with Mandrake Multi Network Firewall, and I have had some
> success with it. That being said I have a question concerning the GUI. I
> could not configure MNF properly using the GUI, so I used VI to edit the
> various rules and filter files manually. This is fine, but the strange
> thing is, after I have edited the files, when I log on through the GUI
> all of the settings I just changed manually are unchanged when viewed
> through the GUI. What I can't figure out is where these setting are
> coming from, because if I check the files again in VI I can confirm that
> they are actually changed. I would like to be able to change the
> settings and have them reflected in the GUI if possible. Any ideas?
> 

Mandrake is famous for the hidden (non-standard) config files.  What you 
may want to look into is where webmin or linuxconf store their files. 
Mandrake may have just written a fancy frontend to either of those 
utilities.  Red Hat and Mandrake both have had problems in the past with 
Gui-based tools not actually altering the standard .conf or config file. 
  You would have a choice of editing by hand (as you did) or by Gui, but 
not both.  MNF is based on Mandrake 7.3 if I recall correctly.  I 
checked it out, but I went for IPCop instead.

Brian

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