Re: rc.firewall not executed?

From: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy_at_siliconlandmark.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:45:36 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:36:23AM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > > I just noticed that my ipfw rules were not loaded the last time I
> > > rebooted.  My rc.conf is included below - has something changed
> > > recently so that these settings are not enough?  I didn't see anything
> > > relevant in UPDATING.  My /etc/firewall.conf exists and is readable
> > > (and unchanged since 2002).
> > >
> > > Kris
> > >
> > > ----
> > > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/defaults/rc.conf,v 1.156 2002/08/30 13:01:42 hm Exp $
> > > hostname="citusc17.usc.edu"     # Set this!
> > > nisdomainname="cituscdomain"    # Set to NIS domain if using NIS (or NO).
> > > firewall_enable="YES"           # Set to YES to enable firewall functionality
> > > firewall_type="/etc/firewall.conf"      # Firewall type (see /etc/rc.firewall)
> >                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > This is wrong. Set it to "UNKNOWN". There's firewall_script for that.
>
> Nope..read rc.firewall(5) :-)

Well, I'm assuming that you're refering to the rc.firewall that's in
section 8 of the manual; And yes, I stand corrected.

But I still think that firewall_script is more intuitive... ;)

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >
Received on Sun Jun 15 2003 - 18:45:40 UTC

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