Re: Shorewall Firewall with dynamic interfaces

[Amit Uttamchandani <atu13439@csun.edu>]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:02:34 +1200
Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:18:38AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > Yes, shorewall is very powerful!
> > 
> > Also, do you get the error:
> > 
> > touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/shorewall': No such file or
> > directory done.
> 
> I'm running shorewall and that file doesn't exist, infact there is even
> no /var/lock/subsys/ directory. 
> 

You are right, I don't have that directory either.

> > I did a google search and this is basically a state file written by
> > shorewall to indicate a successful start up. Should I just create this
> > file?
> 
> How did you install shorewall?
> 

I installed 'shorewall-perl' package from the testing repo. I am
running Debian Testing.

This looks like a bug. Should I report it?

Thanks,
Amit