1fwrestart(8)          Safer remote firewall re-starting.          fwrestart(8)
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NAME

6       fwrestart  - Re-initialize the firewall rules, disabling firewall shell
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SYNOPSIS

11       fwrestart
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DESCRIPTION

15       fwrestart uses terminal auto-response codes to safely re-start firewall
16       rules over a remote shell session.  It sends a request to your terminal
17       (xterm, for example), which responds  back  automatically.   When  that
18       response  is received, ensuring that fwrestart can communicate with the
19       terminal, fwrestart then issues a command to restart the firewall.   It
20       then tries another request to the terminal, and if that is not received
21       within 5 seconds, a command is run to clear the firewall and an  appro‐
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24       The  goal  is  to  be  able to automatically detect when changes to the
25       firewall block the administrative shell session, and to take corrective
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28       By  default  the  commands  used  to restart and clear the firewall are
29       "/sbin/service  iptables  start"  and  "/sbin/service  iptables  stop".
30       These commands can be changed by modifying the values of "fwRestartCmd"
31       and "fwClearCmd" at the beginning of the fwrestart script.
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EXAMPLES

35       Re-load firewall rules, checking to ensure that  the  new  rules  don't
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ENVIRONMENT

42       A KRUD installation (http://www.tummy.com/krud).
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AUTHOR

46       Sean Reifschneider (jafo@tummy.com) of tummy.com, ltd.
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48       krudfind is a KRUD Linux product.
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50       http://www.tummy.com/krud/
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54KRUD                              2003-06-29                      fwrestart(8)