Mandrake MNF
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at comcast.net
Sun Aug 10 00:52:53 CDT 2003
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Friday 08 August 2003 5:59 pm, Brian Kelsay wrote:
>
>
>>Mandrake is famous for the hidden (non-standard) config files.
>
>
> Actually, in my experience running Mandrake for several years, over several
> new installations, the standard config files are either where they are
> expected to be, or are easily found using 'locate'. I haven't had any
> problems using them, but I rarely rely on the GUI "Wizards". If I wanted
> Wizards I'd go with Windows - they do 'em better.
>
Probably because you didn't even install the wizards you had no problem.
I was on the Mandrake newbie list for about a year, learning and
helping people and this came up frequently. They may have fixed it, I
don't know.
> What is it with you guys running pre-packaged firewalls anyway? I thought the
> whole Linux spirit was to customise the rules yourself. I've never found one
> of these pacages that was any closer to what I wanted than a raw installation
> that I could set the chains on myself.
>
It's hard to be sure you got your ipchains or iptables right the first
go around. Rather than have my boxen become cracker heaven and due to
lack of time I go w/ a pre-packaged solution and add my specifics to it
later as I learn more. I was happy w/ freesco for almost 2 years and
then the latest version started spewing DNS errors to the logs and
various other craziness. I had my ipchains all set, but I dropped it
and moved to IPCop and haven't regretted it. It has Red Hat 7.3 as the
base distro and I can figure more stuff out. Freesco used loadlin and
was made to fit on a floppy, so lots of stuff was missing that I was
used to.
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