On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 14:08 +0100, Tom Erjavec wrote: > Hello Team, > > I am now able to reproduce my problems with yate / shorewall that I > raised 10 days ago. The changes I did to shorewall policy file or rules > file were not reflected if I restarted shorewall. It was the same result > when restarting in either web interface or CLI. The policy and the rules > seem not to be re-compiled during a shorewall web restart or > # /etc/init.d/shorewall restart . > > However, if I stop shorewall and start it again, then the re-compilation > is always done and the changes are reflected. > I suppose that a restart should re-compile as well. > > I hope this description can be understood and helpful. > > Tom
Tom and I have been having an off-list email exchange about this. The problem is as follows: /sbin/shorewall restart works fine /etc/init.d/shorewall restart does *not* pick up new rules The code in /etc/init.d/shorewall says: # restart the firewall shorewall_restart () { echo -n "Restarting \"Shorewall firewall\": " $SRWL $OPTIONS restart 2>&1 && echo "done." return 0 The problem is the value of $OPTIONS which is set to "-f" in /etc/default/shorewall and the Shorewall docs say: The -f option suppresses the compilation step and simply reused the compiled script which last started/restarted Shorewall. IMHO this is not right, and Tom points out that it is different from Bering-uClibc 3.x. Should we just remove the value for $OPTIONS in /etc/default/shorewall by setting it to an empty string? Expert users could still set it back to "-f" if required. I am happy to make that change if nobody objects. davidMbrooke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enable your software for Intel(R) Active Management Technology to meet the growing manageability and security demands of your customers. Businesses are taking advantage of Intel(R) vPro (TM) technology - will your software be a part of the solution? Download the Intel(R) Manageability Checker today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmar ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/