Re: logging

Tom Allison
Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:55:43 -0000

> A few hints:
>
> a) Be sure that you are following one of the HOWTOs at shorewall.net
> b) You are running Debian; the version of Shorewall that is included
> with Etch is 3.2.6 which *isn''t even supported anymore*.
> c) There is a repository (maintained by the Debian Shorewall maintainer)
> that has Shorewall 4 packages; see the Shorewall download page.
> d) No Shorewall newbie should be running anything but Shorewall-perl
> which isn''t even available in Shorewall 3.2.6.


a) yup.
b) testing has 4.0 so I''m running that.
c) don''t know if I need that if I''m running testing but I can
look into it.

d)  This intrigues me.  Why Shorewall-perl?  debugging support?  This is
the first I heard someone promoting the perl implimentation.