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Date:      Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:59:33 +0100
From:      Alex Kiesel <freebsd@document-root.de>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Firewall Script Fails on Startup
Message-ID:  <20020302235933.GC78568@schlund.de>
In-Reply-To: <006f01c1c20a$55f84500$1e01a8c0@lc.ca.gov>
References:  <006f01c1c20a$55f84500$1e01a8c0@lc.ca.gov>

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On Mar 02, 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> Some time back, I created a firewall script called rc.firewall.current
> based on info I found on the web.  At that time, I thought everything
> was working and was satisfied that it ran at startup.  Yesterday, I had
> to reboot my box.  Today I was reading the daily cron output and I found
> that the firewall script failed and (because of my default accept) I was
> wide open.  Here's the relavent part of the output:

[snip] 
 
> I've done some poking around but can't figure out how to determine why
> rc.firewall.current fails during startup, yet I can run "sh
> /etc/rc.firewall/current" from the command line and everything works
> without error.  Where is this logged?  I found the above stuff is in
> /var/log/dmesg.today so I tried adding the -v flag to /bin/sh in
> rc.network to see if I get some clues.  However, dmesg.today doesn't
> change after a reboot.  Must be created from periodic.daily?

Does the entry "firewall_script" in /etc/rc.conf point to your script?

Alex

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