On 12/29/2017 03:21 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 12/29/2017 3:01 PM, Rob wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
>> First of all, some requested outputs:
> 
>> $ /sbin/shorewall version 5.1.10.1
> 
>> $ ip addr show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc
>> noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback
>> 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host
>> lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0:
>> <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP
>> group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:1d:09:a8:93:1d brd
>> ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.6/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope
>> global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6
>> fe80::21d:9ff:fea8:931d/64 scope link       valid_lft forever 
>> preferred_lft forever 3: wlp12s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>> qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether
>> 00:1c:bf:c3:f5:82 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 
>> $ ip route show default via 192.168.1.254 dev eth0 192.168.1.0/24
>> dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.6
> 
>> I just booted my laptop this afternoon and run a system update.  I 
>> upgraded to shorewall-5.1.10.1-1, shorewall-core-5.1.10.1-1 and 
>> shorewall6-5.1.10.1-1.  While downloading these and other updates,
>> I noticed some unexpected NFS activity.  I completed the upgrade
>> and ran `systemctl daemon-reload` to restart shorewall, and started
>> to investigate the NFS activity.  An autofs (automount) NFS mount
>> point shared from my server was mounted (mount point in my homedir)
>> and I also noticed these processes:
> 
>> root      5300     1  0 14:54 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh 
>> /usr/bin/shorewall -6 start root      5322  5300 18 14:54 ?
>> 00:00:34 find -newer /var/lib/shorewall6/firewall
> 
>> Is this expected behaviour?  I've never noticed it before.  I'm
>> guessing the `find` triggered the autofs mount.  But why the need
>> for `find`?  I was not able to determine much else before the find
>> command finished. There was not a lot of NFS traffic, but the
>> server is next to my desk and I could see the HDD light flashing
>> away for the duration.
> 
>> I should add that the previous shorewall version was 5.1.10-1.
> 
> I suspect that the previous version was a earlier :-)
> 
> The 'find' is triggered by AUTOMAKE=Yes. So if you replaced your older
> shorewall[6].conf with the latest, AUTOMAKE=Yes is now set by default.
> 

For the next release, I'll add '-mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1' to the "find"
predicates to limit the search to just the files in each directory in
the CONFIG_PATH.

-Tom
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