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Tom Eastep 2010-09-28 08:04:02 -07:00
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url="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guides</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section id="faq92">
<title>(FAQ 92) There are lots of Shorewall packages; which one(s) do I
install?</title>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: When first installing
Shorewall 4.4.0 or later, you must install the <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall</emphasis> package. If you want to configure an
IPv6 firewall, you must also install <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall6</emphasis>.</para>
<section id="faq92a">
<title>(FAQ 92a) Someone once told me to install shorewall-perl;
anything to that?</title>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: That was good advice in
Shorewall 4.2 and earlier. In those releases, there were two packages
that provided the basic firewalling functionality: <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall-shell</emphasis> and <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall-perl</emphasis>. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.0,
<emphasis role="bold">shorewall-shell</emphasis> is discontinued and
<emphasis role="bold">shorewall-perl</emphasis> was renamed <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall</emphasis>.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="faq37">
<title>(FAQ 37) I just installed Shorewall on Debian and the
/etc/shorewall directory is almost empty!!!</title>
@ -1192,7 +1217,7 @@ to debug/develop the newnat interface.</programlisting></para>
<title>(FAQ 91) I changed the shorewall.conf file in /etc/shorewall/ to
spit out logs to /var/log/shorewall.log and it's not happening after I
restart shorewall. LOGFILE=/var/log/shorewall.log &lt;-- that should be
the correct line, right? </title>
the correct line, right?</title>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: No, that is not correct.
The LOGFILE setting tells Shorewall where to find the log; it does not