Hi, I got arch installed and its great. I now want to get on the net so i found myself a iptables script and just need to know how to go about getting it to run at boot time. I have read up on on the way arch boots but am only new to linux so Im not quite sure how to get the script to run. Anyway awesome distro nice and fast. Thankyou.

Not sure -- I use slackware -- in your /etc/rc.d directory

there either is a rc.local file, you could create a file called rc.firewall that is exe and that should get run on startup. If you have a init.d directory -- just place the exec file in there.

You put the file in /etc/init.d. Then I'm not sure about arch but in Debian you symlink in to a directory /etc/rc.x where x is the number of the runlevel you wich to activate it in.

You need to figure out which scripts are run at bootup. Look in /etc/inittab for the System initialization script. This is how RedHat or Mandrake would look.

# System initialization.
si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

This means that the next file to execute is /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. You can read through that file to find the next file which executes, for RH & MD it is /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Usually you will modify the rc.local file and leave the rc.sysinit file alone. ArchLinux may be similar or totally different but the inittab file will always tell you which file to start with.

The Arch way of doing this is as follows:
1. Place your script in /etc/rc.d/
2. Chown it to root and chmod 744
3. Add the name of the script in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf. Mine looks like this:
4. Reboot or start the script by running /etc/rc.d/firewall start (replace firewall with the name of your script if needed).
5. If anything goes wrong, please ask again.bbs.archlinux.org is good for arch-specifik things.

Thanks everyone for the help. I ended up doing it as Mork said as its the arch way of doing things. Thanks.