Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:28:41 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com> To: Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFW quirk Message-ID: <20001006112841.A80260@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200010060819.e968JLM47254@virtual-voodoo.com>; from steve@virtual-voodoo.com on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:19:21AM -0500 References: <200010060819.e968JLM47254@virtual-voodoo.com>
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On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:19:21AM -0500, Steve Ames wrote:
>
> Hey... I just type 'ipfw -a list' on the command line and got back an
> invalid argument error. That confused me for a bit so I poked around
> for a while and then it just started working again. A bit more poking
> and I discovered that it fails if there is a file called 'list' in
> the directory the command is being executed from.
>
> Seems ipfw checks for a file containing commands before it checks to
> see if you've issued a valid command?
>
> A bit of experimenting ('touch flush', 'ipfw flush') seems to indicate
> that its true for most commands. Perhaps this is intentional but its
> behavior confused me a bit... And it means I can't leave a file called
> 'list' laying around as then /etc/security output is wrong.
>
Also known as PR 16179. I was planning on looking at it today :-)
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