[BlueOnyx:17498] IPTables Cron Errors

[Roy Urick]

I cant find the link at the moment, but I applied a temporary IPTables 
fix to stop some door rattlers. According to the notes I could enter 
"iptables -I acctin 1 -s x.x.x.x -j DROP" (replacing the x.x.x.x with 
the originating/offending IP) and put in a temporary block to stop the 
bad traffic. It was noted that this wasnt a permanent fix as it was only 
running in RAM and would go away at the next reboot. This is perfect for 
what I was wanting.

However in the hourly cron jobs I now get the following errors:

/etc/cron.hourly/log_traffic:

iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?).
iptables: Bad rule (does a matching rule exist in that chain?).

Rebooting seems to have eliminated the error. ( I presume because the rules in memory are gone)

Is there a way to do this without getting the hourly alerts?