Re: Shorewall not starting

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 02:25:05PM +0100, Philip Le Riche via Shorewall-users wrote:
> As before, this is running under Linux Mint (Ubuntu-based), and this time I
> installed Shorewall from the standard repository for the distro (perhaps
> that was my mistake?) It's failing to start on boot even though I have
> STARTUP_ENABLED=Yes in my shorewall.conf.

You should determine if shorewall is *trying* to start and failing, or
if systemd is not configured to start it.

$ sudo systemctl status shorewall
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/shorewall.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

> Also, I was surprised to find that /etc/systemd/system/shorewall.service
> didn't exist.

Maybe you need to run:
systemctl enable shorewall

https://shorewall.org/FAQ.htm#idm1200

-- 
Justin