Re: [Shorewall-users] initial SW config, failing the "shorewall check"

[Rodney D. M. <rod...@fa...>]

Tom Eastep wrote:
> Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> 
>> and I'm getting this error message;
>>
>> Validating Policy File....
>> ERROR: undefined zone ]
> 
> First of all, you appear to be using the deprecated shell-based
> compiler. So the first thing that I suggest is that you install
> shorewall-perl and set SHOREWALL_COMPILER=Perl in shorewall.conf. That
> will give you much faster compilation with very much better diagnostics.
> 
> Then, look for the character ']' in /etc/shorewall/policy.
> 
> -Tom
> 
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Found the problem. In the beginning, I was using a real flakey keyboard,
which would add extra characters when I was not looking, and in looking
through the policy file, found the stray [ at the very beginning of the
file.

THanks.


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