On 12/27/2017 06:43 AM, daniel wrote:
> i just upgraded my server to fc 27 and installed shorewall 5.0.41.1.

5.0.14.1, perhaps?

> the first time i started it and every subsequent time i get this error
> that is not caught by shorewall -vv restart.  i pasted it onto the
> attached output of shorewall -vv restart. shorewall does seem to
> function fine however every time it starts i get this error...
> 
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in
> Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
> m/^(\s*|.*[^&@%]){ <-- HERE (.*)}\s*$/ at
> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Shorewall/Config.pm line 2336.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in
> Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
> m/^(\s*|.*[^&@%]){ <-- HERE (.*)}\s*$/ at
> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Shorewall/Config.pm line 2352.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in
> Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
> m/^(\s*|.*[^&@%]){ <-- HERE (.*)}$/ at
> /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Shorewall/Config.pm line 2366.
> 
> i am not sure what to make out of it.  i went into the file and poked
> around but i was not sure if i should take this as a literal statement
> as the error of if it was a statement as a result of some other
> failure.  should i make any changes or just leave the error or is this
> just a bug to be fixed...?
> 
> well, for some reason i cannot attach any files to thunderbird so i am
> not going to attach the file because i dont not think it is the issue
> unless someone specifically asks for it.

These messages, while annoying, are harmless. A fix for this problem was
released in Shorewall 5.1.5.

-Tom
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