Re: [bwm-tools-tech] Getting started

[Nigel K. <nk...@lb...>]

> $./bwmd
> BWM Daemon v0.1.8 - Copyright (c) 2003 Linux Based Systems Design
>=20
> I/O warning : failed to load external entity=20
> "/usr/local/etc/bwm_tools/firewall.xml"
> Failed to load flow data from configuration file!
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-----
>=20
> (a) I dont have a /usr/local/etc/
> and
> (b) How do I go about generating the firewall.xml (which i'd presume to=
=20
> be the ruleset) ?
>=20
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>=20
> Many thanks,
> -- Jon

Hi Jon,

Check in the doc directory in the source, there is an example .xml file
there. You must create the above etc directory and put the configuration
file there.  bwm_firewall generates an iptables ruleset which can be
loaded atomically with iptables-restore.

Regards
Nigel