Re: Strangeness with SANE macro - any ideas?

Roberto C. Sánchez <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Mar 2024 15:13:14 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.shorewall
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 12:43:24PM +0200, Tuomo Soini wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:17:15 -0500
> Roberto C. Sánchez <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The odd thing is that I know I have other helpers working correctly. I
> > have AUTOHELPERS=Yes in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and things like
> > FTP work as expected.
> 
> See this part of documentation. Nobody should have AUTOHELPERS enabled
> any more. I suggest you switch to AUTOHELPERS=No and test again because
> you likely have later than 3.5 kernel.
> 
> https://shorewall.org/Helpers.html#idm217
> 
Thanks for the pointer. That did turn out to be exactly the bit of
information I needed. In retrospect, when I was troubleshooting the
problem and I looked in macro.SANE at "! $AUTOHELPERS" it should have
occurred to me that "AUTOHELPERS=Yes" was actually the source of my
problem.

Regards,

-Roberto

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