What is the Syslog daemon? Can iptables be activated?

Pi MusicBox
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i tried to change etc/syslog.conf

but how do i restart syslog? I cant find the daemon.
Same for iptables, there isnt an entry on chkconfig.
thanks!

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I’ll risk being an idiot here because I’m not sure what you’re asking and it’s pretty likely that your Linux skills are way beyond mine, but: sudo systemctl restart syslog

???

KO

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thx, no, thats why i ask there is no daemon named syslog

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Hi, it’s not very obvious, I must admit. But you can usually tell by looking at what is started by the init system:

$ ls /etc/rc5.d/S*
/etc/rc5.d/S01bootlogs		 /etc/rc5.d/S01motd   /etc/rc5.d/S01triggerhappy  /etc/rc5.d/S02dbus	      /etc/rc5.d/S04plymouth   /etc/rc5.d/S04stop-bootlogd
/etc/rc5.d/S01ifplugd		 /etc/rc5.d/S01samba  /etc/rc5.d/S01wd_keepalive  /etc/rc5.d/S02winbind       /etc/rc5.d/S04rc.local   /etc/rc5.d/S04watchdog
/etc/rc5.d/S01inetutils-syslogd  /etc/rc5.d/S01sudo   /etc/rc5.d/S02cron	  /etc/rc5.d/S03avahi-daemon  /etc/rc5.d/S04rmnologin

In the case of syslog it’s:

$ service restart inetutils-syslogd
[ ok ] Restarting system log daemon: syslogd.

iptables is a command, not a service so it’s not as simple. But you can flush the existing rules:

iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -F
iptables -X

And then reload our saved rules:

iptables-restore < /etc/firewall/musicbox_iptables

I hope this helps.

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I love it when I learn new things. Thanks!