Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 21:39:19 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net> To: thyerm@camtech.net.au Cc: kong@kkk.ml.org, Studded@dal.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall in kernel? Message-ID: <199801100339.VAA01085@nash.pr.mcs.net> In-Reply-To: <34B6DA80.C402491@camtech.net.au>
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On 10 Jan, Matthew Thyer wrote: > It is caused by a program in rc.network which trys to detect if the > firewall code is compiled into the kernel. This program fails in > some way and returns an error code in the 60's (I cant remember as > I'm having to use Win95 right now) but the script only expects > 0 or 1 as a return code so it mistakenly thinks the firewall is > in the kernel. Thanks for pointing this out! A few days ago I changed the error codes returned by ipfw to use those found in sysexits.h. I didn't realize there was a dependency on ipfw always returning 1 on error. The next CTM update will include a fix for this (the script, not ipfw :). Alex
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