Re: Debian 3.2 Sample Config Files?

Jon
Sun, 04 Mar 2007 16:41:00 -0000

Thanks for the info, guys.

In reality, all I really need is the modules file. I can recreate the rules,
policy, zones etc from the documentation on the site but I don''t know
what the mdules file looks like.

J

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From: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@suffields.me.uk>
Date: Sunday, Mar 4, 2007 4:59 am
Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Debian 3.2 Sample Config Files?
To: shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.netReply-To: Shorewall Users
<shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net>

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:36:32AM +0000, Simon Hobson
wrote:
> Three suggestions :
>
> 1) Grab the deb package for Etch and manually sort out any
> dependencies. I see that my Etch box has Shorewall 3.2.6-2 installed.
> This can be an ''interesting'' experience !
>
> 2) Look at the backports project (http://www.backports.org/) which
> takes the newer packages and does all the hard work for you. I see
> that also has 3.2.6.
>
> 3) Just grab the latest deb anyway, and manually extract the missing
> files. I think "dpkg --extract <package>" is what you need.
>
>Curiously enough, you can usually grab the .deb binary package from sid and
install it on sarge as-is - since there is no compiled code in shorewall, there
are no dependency issues. You''ll need a kernel update from the one
shipped with sarge, but aside from that it should work
>fine.
>
>It wouldn''t work for just about any other package, but it does work
for shorewall. For some reason Tom doesn''t appear to have developed
>the fetish for backwards-incompatibility that plagues most projects.
>
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