Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:31:14 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> 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 Message-ID: <20061010223113.GA26942@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <200610100256.k9A2u7SE072234@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200610100256.k9A2u7SE072234@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On 2006-10-10 02:56, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> trhodes 2006-10-10 02:56:06 UTC
>
> FreeBSD doc repository
>
> Modified files:
> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls chapter.sgml
> Log:
> 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.)
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.73 +1 -3 doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls/chapter.sgml
I sort of liked the reference to `rc.conf', which was removed too in
this change though:
| % hg export 3027adf101b5
| # HG changeset patch
| # User trhodes
| # Date 1160448966 0
| # Node ID 3027adf101b54653c2ae78f67f4b198ceb6b3502
| # Parent ee2bbb8596284cc1e90bb0cf6c51375f1df0bbb0
| 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
| <sect2 id="firewalls-ipfw-rc">
| <title><filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> Options</title>
|
| - <para>If you do not have IPFW compiled into your kernel you will
| - need to load it with the following statement in your
| - <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
| + <para>Enable the firewall:</para>
|
| <programlisting>firewall_enable="YES"</programlisting>
|
| %
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:
<para>Enable the firewall in your
<filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> file:</para>
??
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