/var/lock/subsys/shorewall and /var/state/shorewall

[Peter Crawford <creature.58@hotmail.com>]

At Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:18:38 -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote,
"Also, do you get the error:
touch: cannot touch `/var/lock/subsys/shorewall': No such file or directory
"

Ref. man shorewall.conf.

Appears that a recent update intended to 
replace the lock /var/lock/subsys/shorewall 
with the state flag /var/state/shorewall.  

"mkdir state" in /var and update 
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf 
SUBSYSLOCK=/var/state/shorewall .
Shorewall will create and remove /var/state/shorewall.

Allowing replacement of shorewall.conf in 
the update might do this automatically.

Regards,         ... p. crawford


_________________________________________________________________