Lorenzo Martignoni wrote: > * Greg Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> At the very least, README.Debian should be updated to reflect this >> change in behaviour. Currently the file says: >> >> 1. AUTOMATIC STARTUP >> -------------------- >> >> In order to avoid the startup of the firewall on an unconfigured >> machine, automatic startup, on boot, is disabled by default. To >> enable it just edit the file /etc/default/shorewall and set the >> "startup" variable to 1. >> >> The initscript no longer seems to reference /etc/default/shorewall at >> all, so clearly this is no longer accurate. > > Why do you say that? The init script in the package does reference > /etc/default/shorewall.
That is true, but in both of the machines i've upgraded to Shorewall 3.2.4, they have not started successfully. Shorewall does not start without the STARTUP_ENABLED variable being present, which i think is bad backwards-compatibility behaviour. I'll have a talk to Tom about this. -- Paul <http://paulgear.webhop.net> -- Everyone who voted for slavery was free. Everyone who votes for abortion was born. That's how oppression works. -- Matt Evans, Harvard law student
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