It occurred to me over the last few days that in fact I hadn''t been a model ShoreWall Citizen so I went to the site and visited this link for inspiration: http://www.cityofshoreline.com/about/history/index.html Here I was reminded of just how open source communities are suppose to work. Just like the early beginnings of Shoreline, Tom has brought together many scattered settlements or in this case thoughts on how to develop a successful firewall. Through his determination and ability to invite collaboration we now have one of the most successful firewalls available. So I began to think what''s wrong with my citizenship in this community, and then it hit me, CONTRIBUTION? A community can stand for a short time supported by its pioneers but over time organization and new additions to the support systems will be necessary. My New Years resolution must be to be a more active supporter of this community. I will no longer sit by where I know an answer and depend on others to answer. I will also post discoveries and adaptations I have found for ShoreWall more freely. I encourage all who have the Zen of ShoreWall to rise up and let your voice be heard! Carpe Diem!
So who''s going to write a WEBMIN module for it first ? => -----Original Message----- => From: shorewall-users-bounces@shorewall.net => [mailto:shorewall-users-bounces@shorewall.net] On Behalf Of => Thad Marsh => Sent: Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:14 => To: shorewall-users@shorewall.net => Subject: [Shorewall-users] The community => => => It occurred to me over the last few days that in fact I => hadn''t been a model ShoreWall Citizen so I went to the site => and visited this link for => inspiration: => http://www.cityofshoreline.com/about/history/index.html Here I was reminded of just how open source communities are suppose to work. Just like the early beginnings of Shoreline, Tom has brought together many scattered settlements or in this case thoughts on how to develop a successful firewall. Through his determination and ability to invite collaboration we now have one of the most successful firewalls available. So I began to think what''s wrong with my citizenship in this community, and then it hit me, CONTRIBUTION? A community can stand for a short time supported by its pioneers but over time organization and new additions to the support systems will be necessary. My New Years resolution must be to be a more active supporter of this community. I will no longer sit by where I know an answer and depend on others to answer. I will also post discoveries and adaptations I have found for ShoreWall more freely. I encourage all who have the Zen of ShoreWall to rise up and let your voice be heard! Carpe Diem! _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@shorewall.net http://mail.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users
http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/contrib/> So who''s going to write a WEBMIN module for it first ? > > => -----Original Message----- > => From: shorewall-users-bounces@shorewall.net > => [mailto:shorewall-users-bounces@shorewall.net] On Behalf Of > => Thad Marsh > => Sent: Saturday, 11 January 2003 00:14 > => To: shorewall-users@shorewall.net > => Subject: [Shorewall-users] The community > => > => > => It occurred to me over the last few days that in fact I > => hadn''t been a model ShoreWall Citizen so I went to the site > => and visited this link for > => inspiration: > => > http://www.cityofshoreline.com/about/history/index.html > > > > Here I was reminded of just how open source communities are suppose to > work. Just like the early beginnings of Shoreline, Tom has brought > together many scattered settlements or in this case thoughts on how to > develop a successful firewall. Through his determination and ability to > invite collaboration we now have one of the most successful firewalls > available. > > > > So I began to think what''s wrong with my citizenship in this community, > and then it hit me, CONTRIBUTION? A community can stand for a short time > supported by its pioneers but over time organization and new additions > to the support systems will be necessary. > > > > My New Years resolution must be to be a more active supporter of this > community. I will no longer sit by where I know an answer and depend on > others to answer. I will also post discoveries and adaptations I have > found for ShoreWall more freely. > > > > I encourage all who have the Zen of ShoreWall to rise up and let your > voice be heard! Carpe Diem! > > _______________________________________________ > Shorewall-users mailing list > Shorewall-users@shorewall.net > http://mail.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Shorewall-users mailing list > Shorewall-users@shorewall.net > http://mail.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users-- Joe *** I can only please one person a day. Today is not your day and tomorrow doesn''t look good either. ***
> > I encourage all who have the Zen of ShoreWall to rise up and let your > voice be heard! Carpe Diem! >I''m following the list since March last year - I think Thad correctly pointed out what Tom showed us in the past months - do something for the rest of us, the community, sharing his competences and spending his spare time - a precious element for all of us - for the others: that''s great! I''ve learnt the few Linux I needed to boot and sligthly modify Bering distro by J. Nilo (http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=63): I''m the last one of the list entitled to give suggestions and to offer solution to everyday''s problem. I''ve started to develop the web interface to Shorewall just because it was my intention to assemble a commercial product (after I found an embedded PC 3xLAN that I bought) - it is still my intention to go that way and sell the product as a combination of the specific HW + Bering + Shorewall + my web interface: in the meanwhile I''d like to share what I''ve done with the community. Please consider that: 1. I''m a developer in the application server environment (Macromedia CF MX under Windoze) - I''m a Linux rookie; 2. I''ve decided that Webmin was too much in terms of load for my embedded Bering - so I decided to use thttpd as a web server: the web interface is built from the Weblet example; 3. the web server runs as root - that''s in most''s opinion, as a matter of facts, a BAD approach for security issues; 4. the interface is not complete but it offers the possibility to modify Shorewall scripts maintaining full compatibility with Tom''s original scripting, launching Shorewall commands (start, stop, ...) and offering full logs visibility. 5. Page titles and subtitles are in italian - I guess you''ll be able to understand the meaning anyhow. 6. I cannot ensure to be able to have enough time and knowledge to give the right answers to your potential questions: please don''t flame me for that; 7. I will be for sure not able to give answer like ''...in RH8.0 do that and in SuSEyx do this''. 8. Sometimes the system is offline for reboot and testing - sometimes it is detached from the net for more than 48 hours... again, please be patient. Said that, if you want to test drive the interface, the URL is http://62.110.196.252:8080 - andrea:andrea as login. Please be patient if what you''ll see is not what you were expecting for: that''s what I''ve done with the best of my knowledge (and most of my after hours). In the remote opportunity that part of the community will like it, it will be downloadable from some URL (still to be defined) in LRP (tgz) format. Any comment and indication is more than welcome... Thank you Tom for the human example you''ve given us (beside Shorewall itself). Thanks to all of you for your contribution. - Andrea
Andrea, Please send this post to the LEAF devel list. Many of our project members are working on a similar task. The lead developer for a web interface/graphical configuration is Lynn Avants. Please let me know if you need anything. Thanks. http://leaf-project.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=12&page_id=5 On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:59, Andrea Galmacci - awd* wrote:> > > > I encourage all who have the Zen of ShoreWall to rise up and let your > > voice be heard! Carpe Diem! > > > > I''m following the list since March last year - I think Thad correctly > pointed out what Tom showed us in the past months - do something for the > rest of us, the community, sharing his competences and spending his spare > time - a precious element for all of us - for the others: that''s great! > > I''ve learnt the few Linux I needed to boot and sligthly modify Bering distro > by J. Nilo > (http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=63): > I''m the last one of the list entitled to give suggestions and to offer > solution to everyday''s problem. > > I''ve started to develop the web interface to Shorewall just because it was > my intention to assemble a commercial product (after I found an embedded PC > 3xLAN that I bought) - it is still my intention to go that way and sell the > product as a combination of the specific HW + Bering + Shorewall + my web > interface: in the meanwhile I''d like to share what I''ve done with the > community. > > Please consider that: > > 1. I''m a developer in the application server environment (Macromedia CF MX > under Windoze) - I''m a Linux rookie; > 2. I''ve decided that Webmin was too much in terms of load for my embedded > Bering - so I decided to use thttpd as a web server: the web interface is > built from the Weblet example; > 3. the web server runs as root - that''s in most''s opinion, as a matter of > facts, a BAD approach for security issues; > 4. the interface is not complete but it offers the possibility to modify > Shorewall scripts maintaining full compatibility with Tom''s original > scripting, launching Shorewall commands (start, stop, ...) and offering full > logs visibility. > 5. Page titles and subtitles are in italian - I guess you''ll be able to > understand the meaning anyhow. > 6. I cannot ensure to be able to have enough time and knowledge to give the > right answers to your potential questions: please don''t flame me for that; > 7. I will be for sure not able to give answer like ''...in RH8.0 do that and > in SuSEyx do this''. > 8. Sometimes the system is offline for reboot and testing - sometimes it is > detached from the net for more than 48 hours... again, please be patient. > > Said that, if you want to test drive the interface, the URL is > http://62.110.196.252:8080 - andrea:andrea as login. > > Please be patient if what you''ll see is not what you were expecting for: > that''s what I''ve done with the best of my knowledge (and most of my after > hours). > > In the remote opportunity that part of the community will like it, it will > be downloadable from some URL (still to be defined) in LRP (tgz) format. > > Any comment and indication is more than welcome... > > > Thank you Tom for the human example you''ve given us (beside Shorewall > itself). > Thanks to all of you for your contribution.-- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes @ users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ http://sitedocs.sf.net/ http://ffl.sf.net/
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 05:14, Thad Marsh wrote:> So I began to think what''s wrong with my citizenship in this community, > and then it hit me, CONTRIBUTION? A community can stand for a short time > supported by its pioneers but over time organization and new additions > to the support systems will be necessary. > > My New Years resolution must be to be a more active supporter of this > community. I will no longer sit by where I know an answer and depend on > others to answer. I will also post discoveries and adaptations I have > found for ShoreWall more freely.Thad, Well put. I''m not sure how large the mailing list is, but it should be large enough for the community to support Shorewall users. -- Mike Noyes <mhnoyes @ users.sourceforge.net> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ http://sitedocs.sf.net/ http://ffl.sf.net/