Re: Role of ksh in Firehol

"Tsaousis, Costa" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:32:47 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.firehol.user
Message-ID <CANL+VpYP6F4-NMW+dJZxdjs67B-cgq-dKMqwmkNpAGNemUEnNw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi, thanks for letting us know about this.

ksh should not be a dependency for firehol. If is only used when everything
fails.

Is it required to remove it from that line, or it can just be ignored?

Phil, if this a breaking point for debian, my suggestion is to simply
comment it out.

Thanks!

Costa


On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Kjetil Kjernsmo <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I'm using Debian on my firewall, and so prefer to rely on the packages from
> there, but I just noticed that firehol is in danger of being removed from
> the distribution, now that it is just about to freeze:
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/firehol.html
>
> I tried to understand the problem, and the problem seems to reside with
> Korn shell (ksh). I went through the scripts, and found ksh only in
> vnetbuild. I have not tried to understand what's up with ksh itself
> though.
>
> However, it seems that ksh only plays a very minor role as one of other
> alternatives.
> Y|SH_CMD|/bin/sh|sh bash ksh
>
> So, I'm interested in hearing if simply removing ksh from that line will
> allow ksh to be dropped as a dependency for firehol?
>
> Best,
>
> Kjetil
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