<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"> <article> <!--$Id$--> <articleinfo> <title>Fallback and Uninstall</title> <authorgroup> <author> <firstname>Tom</firstname> <surname>Eastep</surname> </author> </authorgroup> <pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate> <copyright> <year>2001-2005</year> <holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled <quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation License</ulink></quote>.</para> </legalnotice> </articleinfo> <section id="Tarball"> <title>Falling Back to the Previous Version of Shorewall using the Fallback Script</title> <para>If you install Shorewall and discover that it doesn't work for you, you can fall back to your previously installed version. To do that:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>cd to the distribution directory for the version of Shoreline Firewall that you are currently running (NOT the version that you want to fall back to).</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>Type <quote>./fallback.sh</quote></para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <caution> <para>The fallback script will replace /etc/shorewall[-lite]/*, /var/lib/shorewall[-lite]/*, /etc/init.d/shorewall[-lilte]] (or equivalent), and /sbin/shorewall[-lite] with the version of these files from before the current version was installed. Any changes to any of these files made since the installation will be lost.</para> </caution> </section> <section id="RPM"> <title>Falling Back to the Previous Version of Shorewall using rpm</title> <para>If your previous version of Shorewall was installed using RPM, you may fall back to that version by typing <quote>rpm -Uvh --force <old rpm></quote> at a root shell prompt (Example: <quote>rpm -Uvh --force /downloads/shorewall-3.1.1-0.noarch.rpm</quote> would fall back to the 3.1.1-0 version of Shorewall).</para> </section> <section id="Uninstall"> <title>Uninstalling Shorewall</title> <para>If you no longer wish to use Shorewall, you may remove it by:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>cd to the distribution directory for the version of Shorewall that you have installed.</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>type <quote>./uninstall.sh</quote></para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> <para>If you installed using an rpm, at a root shell prompt type <quote>rpm -e shorewall</quote>.</para> </section> <section id="Shell-Perl"> <title>Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl</title> <para>Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl have no configuration files and all of their released files are installed in a single directory. To fallback to a prior release of one of these products using the tarballs, simple re-install the older version.</para> <para>To uninstall these products when they have been installed using the tarballs:</para> <itemizedlist> <listitem> <para>rm -rf /usr/share/shorewall-shell</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>rm -rf /usr/share/shorewall-perl</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </section> </article>