discuss: where is ipnatctl??
Subject:
Re: where is ipnatctl??
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
10 Jul 2001 21:47:07 -0000
Message-Id: <20010710174614.J6350@lupercalia.net>
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:33:32PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:08:57PM +0200, jdd wrote:
> > it's a very good idea. I just spent an afternoon just to set up the
> > suse personal firewall (I mixed the Suse Firewall and the
> > personnal-firewall, all presents in the same 7.2 distro)
> >
> > I did before setup a firewall with gfcc, but nearly as a blind.
> >
> > I know this is only part of the security problem, but this is
> > terribly hard for novices.
> >
> > I think it's mostly hard for lack of simple doc, so have a good
> > work!
>
> Good to hear from you, jdd! How oppurtune. I would be very interested
> to hear specifically what problems you encountered (concepts,
> terminology, etc), and what information this type of doc should
> include that might have helped you.
>
> Keep in mind that I do not think it feasible to address how individual
> distros handle their respective installations and initial
> configurations. This changes so much with each release, it would be a
> never ending job.
>
> And while I will certainly address firewalls, I doubt I will include
> much on the use of the various firewall configuration tools available.
> Possbily a few links to some of the better known ones. I take it that
> what gfcc is? Actually, I've never heard of that one ;)
>
> Please try to bore me with specifics ;) Also, will you consider
> volunteering to proof read draft versions? I would hate to write
> something that makes perfect sense to me, but misses the intended
> audience.
Also feel free to take advantage of the reviewing team. We have about
20 people all willing to check your doc. We keep getting more and more
volunteers for this team.
Joy, you've been working to get an alias set up, right? Can you tell
everybody the status and how to use it if it's ready?
--
Dr. David C. Merrill http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project ####@####.####
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