Re: Shorewall Firewall with dynamic interfaces

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:13:09PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> > 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?

I don't have shorewall-perl installed so have no knowledge on that.
Why shorewall-perl?

A 'dpkg -L <packagename> shows what files come with a package, but a
package can often create a file when installed or running; I think a
lock file would be in that category.

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Chris.
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