Re: [cobalt-users] Port Forwarding with Qube 2

["dr. mikey" <mikey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Aronoff wrote:
> 
> I followed Mike Songster's great instructions and was able to get port
> forwarding installed on my Qube2.  I use it to get around many ISP's port 25
> SMTP blocks.  I forward port 25250 to port 25 on my mail server and it works
> awesome.

i'm always glad to hear i have actually contributed something usefull.

> My only problem is getting it to load on startup has been tough.  I have
> added the following line to the end or /etc/rc.d/rc.local but it wont work.
> 
> #startup portfoward
> cd /usr/sbin; ./portfwd -c portfwd.cfg > /var/log/messages 2>&1

i also had trouble with this.  i added an equivalent line to my rc.local
file as well (namely "/usr/local/sbin/portfwd -c
/usr/local/sbin/portfwd.cfg"), but it didn't seem to work as
planned...at first.  some time later (weeks?  months?) i noticed that
the portfwd utility did auto start on reboot.  i have no idea why it
didn't work at first but later decided to.  such is life i suppose.

in any case, just for the fun of it i went ahead and wrote a little init
script for portfwd, which i placed with all the other start/stop scripts
in "/etc/rc.d/init.d".  i then changed the line in rc.local to read
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/portfwd start portfwd.cfg".  i would be happy to send
you (or anyone else for that matter) the init script i wrote if you
think you would find it useful, but keep in mind that i'm just a hack
and don't really know what the hell i'm doing.

it all seems to be working ok now, but then again it has been awhile
since i have rebooted, so i may not really know what i am talking about
(it happens from time to time donchaknow).

love etc.,

mikey.

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