From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jan 13 11:17:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05514 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:17:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f63.hotmail.com [207.82.251.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05463 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:17:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from madrapour@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 11081 invoked by uid 0); 13 Jan 1999 13:49:16 -0000 Message-ID: <19990113134916.11078.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 208.218.169.84 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 05:49:14 PST X-Originating-IP: [208.218.169.84] From: "N. N.M" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re [2]: Quick ipfw question Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 05:49:14 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think mine is rather old. It is run on Freebsd 2.2.6! Nazila >Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:13:14 -0800 (PST) >From: Brook Miles >To: "N. N.M" >cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Quick ipfw question > >On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, N. N.M wrote: > >Well..the first example command line in my man page reads: > > ipfw [-q] file > >And so I rather expected it to work. >But from the other responses it appears this is only a temporary bug, so I >guess I'll just put up with it untill I get around to updating. > >Thanks for the help all, >Brook > >> The reason is simple: as the manual mentions, the argument "-q" is valid >> only with the following commands: >> >> - flush >> - zero no. >> - add ...... >> >> As you see, if you wanna use a file as ipfw's argument, you can't use >> "-q". Alternatively, you can use -q in each line (or each ipfw commands) >> in your file (/myfile). So the rules in this file are added "quietly". >> >> Nazila N. >> >> >> >Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:21:05 -0800 (PST) >> >From: Brook Miles >> >To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG >> >Subject: Quick ipfw question >> > >> > >> >Is there some reason that >> > ipfw /my/file >> >works but >> > ipfw -q /my/file >> >doesn't? >> > >> >It gives "ipfw: error: Bad Arguments" >> > >> >FreeBSD/i386 3.0-RELEASE > >+--- >| Brook Miles >| A spec of cosmic dust... with attitude. >+-------------------------------------- > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message