Shorewall users - Sep 2008 - /etc/shorewall/vardir ignored?

Hi all,

Run into some troubles setting up Shorewall on Voyager linux --
specifically with the /var/lib/shorewall trying to be written to the ro
portion of Voyagers filesystem.

The mailinglist and guides say to create /etc/shorewall/vardir to point
the directory somewhere else, but this doesn''t seem to work.

Instead I simply edited /sbin/shorewall and replaced VARDIR with a
workable location (in Voyager this is /rw/var/lib/shorewall) after
copying the contents of (/ro/var/lib/shorewall) there, and everything
worked as expected.

Just a heads up that either 1) this feature may need testing or 2) more
comprehensive instructions on its use need to be developed in case
people like me can''t figure it out in future. :D

Thanks
-- 
Owen Stickley <oblongcheese@gmail.com>


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Owen Stickley wrote:
> 
> Just a heads up that either 1) this feature may need testing or 2) more
> comprehensive instructions on its use need to be developed in case
> people like me can''t figure it out in future. :D
I personally use /etc/shorewall/vardir and /etc/shorewall-lite/vardir
and they work as expected. So in order to fix this problem, I need to
know what you are running.

Hint 1: /sbin/shorewall version -a

Hint 2: If that command produces an error, then you are running a
version of Shorewall that is much too old to support /etc/shorewall/vardir.

-Tom
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Shoreline,     \ folly is to fill the world with fools.
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