On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 13:04 +0200, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 27. März 2011, um 12:22:15 schrieb davidMbrooke: > > 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; > > Looks that I haven't read the docs carefully. > > Why not setting it to "-q"? > > kp
Setting it to "-q" is OK by me, although the more verbose output is slightly comforting IMHO. dMb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/