Guarddog!

3 December, 2001 - Redhat 7.2 RPMs are now available for development version 1.9.8. Thanks to Matthew Schick. SBE 29 November, 2001 - Development version 1.9.8 is now out. This fixes a nasty bug (described below, and a few other bugs. SBE 27 November, 2001 - YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!! I just discovered a bug in the current development version 1.9.7 where the generated firewall script may cause your machine to appear to hang at boot time. This has happened to me using Mandrake 8.1. If you machine is booting and stops around Enabling swap space and just sits there, press Control-D. It should then continue to and boot normally. Once it has booted you can uninstall Guarddog and delete your /etc/rc.firewall file. Now your machine should be able to boot normally again. I'll put a fixed dev ve

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