SuSEfirewall config file broken after update
Hello, maybe I got this malfunction by chance but I will report it anyway - perhaps someone else got hit. During a recent update of my Suse9.2 (within the last 3-4 weeks) my sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 config file got modified in a bad way. The cause was a multiline configuration entry with "\" to span to the next line(s). After the first multiline, there where repetitions of comments which where harmless to single-line entries, but disrupted the first - and any subsequent multiline-entries thereafter. I did not recognize the problem at once (its my home box - I am rather lazy about it and don't scan the message logs every day :-) - so I cannot refer exactly which update caused the problem - but I found that my firewall did no longer work as intended which pointed me to the problem. Greetings Bernd
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Bernd Johannes wrote:
maybe I got this malfunction by chance but I will report it anyway - perhaps someone else got hit.
During a recent update of my Suse9.2 (within the last 3-4 weeks) my sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 config file got modified in a bad way. The cause was a multiline configuration entry with "\" to span to the next line(s).
Don't do that :-) Although sysconfig files can be sourced by bash they are no shell scripts but config files. Only name=value is allowed. Any sysconfig file will break during update if you use shell tricks. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Development V_/_ http://www.suse.de/
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