On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 11:03 -0500, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On Sat, 2016-03-12 at 15:30 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Package: ufw > > Version: 0.34-2 > > Severity: serious > > > > Configuration files written by the ufw command (user.rules, > > user6.rules) must be stored in either /etc (if they are also intended > > to be directly editable) or /var. > > > > I spent quite some time trying to understand how to transfer my ufw > > configuration to a new installation; following the FHS would have > > saved me that. > > > Sorry about that. Actually this has been discussed at great length in the > upstream bug. Here has been my historical take: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ufw/+bug/728128/comments/1
I did understand that using /var potentially introduces a dependency
loop, though I would have thought you could start the daemon with only
statically defined rules and have it load user-defined rules when /var
becomes available.
> That said with 0.35 I finally yielded:
>
> ufw (0.35) RELEASED; urgency=medium
> ...
> * move user[6].rules to /etc/ufw (LP: #728128)
>
> In other words, this will be fixed in 0.35-1.
Thank you.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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