Will this make it onto the errata page? It's probably easier than changing the version of Shorewall included with rc4.
'mkdir /var/lib/shorewall' is an easy workaround, and it does fix the problem. George > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Eastep [mailto:teastep@;shorewall.net] > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 9:23 PM > To: George Luft > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Jacques Nilo > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] error backing up shorewall (rc4) > > > > > George Luft wrote: > > > > >>>The fix is to replace > >>> var/lib/shorewall > >>> by > >>> var/lib/shorewall/ (notice the / at the end) > >>> in /var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.list > >> > > > >>Or simply 'mkdir /var/lib/shorewall' prior to doing your > first backup... > > > > > > Are either of these methods necessary? If the > /var/lib/shorewall directory > > does not exist, should it just be removed from the .list file? > > > > Good question! > > Shorewall won't currently create this directory if it doesn't > exist. The > idea behind placing it in the .list file was that when the .lrp was > installed, the directory would be created. The only thing > this directory > is used for on Bering is for the dynamic black list. I can > have Shorewall > create this directory during the "shorewall save" processing > and we can > remove it from the .list file. Change will be in Shorewall 1.3.10. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
