[TAG] please help!

[Thomas Adam]

On 02/11/2007, Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:49:57PM +0530, diana wrote:
> >    Hello,
> >
> >          I was directed to you through talkback of the site
> >    -http://linuxgazette.net/137/takefuji.html.i got the following script from
> >    this site.but i am getting
> >    ERROR message: "sed: -e expression #1, char 0: no previous regular
> >    expression Bad argument `DROP' Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for
> >    more information."while running that script manuall.
> >          But i am getting the output from logs as dropped ip in my
> >    /etc/sysconfig/iptables.I am not sure of this error :'( .please help
> >    me.......
>
> I've forwarded your request to the author; perhaps he can help you out;
> if not, a number of people here are pretty competent at shell scripting.
> The script isn't very complicated, anyway - you might want to do a bit
> of troubleshooting on your own (e.g., figure out which line is throwing
> that error.)

Running it as:

``
bash -xv ./some_file
''

Would be a start...

-- Thomas Adam