Brian pointed out: > Incidentally, shorewall has had 'startup=0' since Lenny at least. You > probably forgot that you must have altered the default sometime in the > past and didn't think the README in /usr/share/doc worth a glance. > Also, /etc/default/shorewall is a conffile so if indeed the upgrade > replaced it you could be looking at a bug.
It might be a bug Brian, in /etc/shorewall.conf there is, at the top of this file an option: ############################################################################### # # Shorewall Version 4 -- /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf # # For information about the settings in this file, type "man shorewall.conf" # # Manpage also online at http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall.conf.html ############################################################################### # S T A R T U P E N A B L E D ############################################################################### STARTUP_ENABLED=Yes in this new version of the Documents I failed to read the part about the importance of editing the /etc/default/shorewall file so I wrote the list for the answer, and learned something new. As far as the latest /doc/shorewall-doc/html say, there is nothing about making sure the /etc/default/shorewall file is squared with the /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file that I saw. In /doc/shorewall-core there's nothing about this In /doc/shorewall-doc/ there are subfolders of HTML and HTML/images and manpages in great abundance but no README. In /usr/share/shorewall there are subfolders of Shorewall and config files but even there alas no README or mention of the etc/default/shorewall file. I might add that I also use shorewall-init and the /doc/shorewall-init of which resides no mention of this necessary file, /etc/default/shorewall. If you use shorewall Brian, do tell me where this information resides in the new 4.5.2.2 version of the documentation. If this file (/etc/default/shorewall) existed in the previous version it must have been created without my knowing as I never saw it before. As far as being 'rude' well I don't know. The message from hugo AKA hvw59601 could have gone either way, hugo didn't elaborate beyond his diplomatic statement that I construed to be cryptic in nature suggesting a less than subtle slight and considering the people who post to this list I took no chances but nonetheless hoped for a further dialog, which I believe has not been forthcoming. (from hugo) By correcting hugo's spelling I hoped to help that person improve their spelling. Why do you think that was 'definitely rude"? Don't you like to be corrected when you're wrong Brian? Lastly, if I've completely misunderstood hugo's question as the bleeding obvious and indeed was not intended as some cuteness by that person, I would just say YES, hugo I do run shorewall, what's it to you pal? -- CK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a062k7fcc...@mid.individual.net
