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Date:      Tue, 25 May 2004 11:07:21 -0500
From:      Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup kills /etc/ipf.rules !?
Message-ID:  <200405251107.21324.racerx@makeworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <AB554A75C8188E4C82FFB072E76E2C1E4159B7@BER-DCM-02.corp.berliner-boerse.de>
References:  <AB554A75C8188E4C82FFB072E76E2C1E4159B7@BER-DCM-02.corp.berliner-boerse.de>

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On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:57 am, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote:
> Hi fellows,
>
> I was running cvsup on a FBSD 4.9-RELEASE #5 box
> with the following supfile:
>
> *default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> src-all
>
> when suddenly all ip connections broke down.
>
> Further investigation turned up that /etc/ipf.rules
> somehow disappeared.
> Since the default stance in the kernel file is set to
> deny all the box reacted as expected, though.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Stephan.

My guess - perhaps you missed running mergmaster? If I remember right, your 
rc.conf should define the file to use for ipf/w

Perhaps rc.conf was overwritten? Is ipf.conf the default file name when 
running ipf? If so, perhaps changing it to something like myipf.conf will 
prevent any overwriting?

- 
Best regards,
Chris



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