[BlueOnyx:01099] Re: IPTables rules being rewritten

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Tony,

> I have Webmin 1.470 installed on my BO box (latest updates) and I used
> Webmin to create some firewall rules but they keep getting overwritten
> during the night and reverting to a base 'allow all' set.
>
> I am very new to BO and Linux so I am struggling to find out what rewrites
> the rules.

It's this cronjob that resets the iptables rules:

/etc/cron.hourly/log_traffic

It's used to set up traffic accounting. If you want to use your own iptables 
rules, you can simply delete that cronjob. No harm done there.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber