From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 12:15:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EB7116A4A7; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:15:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA22843DBF; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:14:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from gothmog.pc (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with ESMTP id k9BCEBfc005971 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:14:16 +0300 Received: from gothmog.pc (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9BCEiQA061621; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:14:48 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.pc (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9BCEixg061620; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:14:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:14:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tom Rhodes Message-ID: <20061011121444.GA61592@gothmog.pc> References: <200610100256.k9A2u7SE072234@repoman.freebsd.org> <20061010223113.GA26942@gothmog.pc> <20061011055411.131cedaf.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061011055411.131cedaf.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.688, required 5, AWL -0.29, BAYES_00 -2.60, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0.20, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY 0.00) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-doc@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls chapter.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:15:50 -0000 On 2006-10-11 05:54, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > | Replace some confusing text about "IPFW being loaded/not being loaded/blah" > > | with some more relevent and clear text about using rc.conf to load the > > | firewall. > > | > > | PR 99336 > > | Discussed with: keramida (follow up to PR, etc.) > > | > > | diff a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml > > | --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml > > | +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml > > | @@ -2228,9 +2228,7 @@ options IPV6FIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEP > > | > > | <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> Options > > | > > | - If you do not have IPFW compiled into your kernel you will > > | - need to load it with the following statement in your > > | - /etc/rc.conf: > > | + Enable the firewall: > > | > > | firewall_enable="YES" > > | > > | % > > > > Since `/etc/rc.d/ipfw' is smart enough to load ipfw.ko or dummynet.ko > > automagically, as needed, is it ok to write this as: > > > > Enable the firewall in your > > /etc/rc.conf file: > > I was trying to follow the rest of the documentation here, but > it would not hurt to have this particular sentence re-added. Thanks for the fast reply Tom :) After carefully reading the rendered SGML version, I think your version is much nicer, so I apologize for the noise.