Just to make sure that I am following the correct FreeBSD ML rules/etiquettes

[Marian Hettwer]

Hi there,

some answers, which popped up in my head. Although I'm usually reading 
the german de-bsd-questions, I believe the "rules/etiquette" on 
international bsd-questions should be the same.
So, here we go :)

Srot BULL wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry if this is not the right list for this post. I did not want to 
> bother all those guys in the questions mailing list with this non-sense 
> posting.
> By the way, if I do this kind of posting again...please tell where to 
> correctly post it...
>
until now it sounds like a -chat question, so it looks right to post here ;)

> I have this question all a long and it seems that my urge to ask this 
> question in this list is no longer controllable.
> 
> For example:
> I posted a question in the freebsd-questions mailing list and as usual I 
> get my quick and valuable answers.  To all volunteers, Thank You!
> I posted this yesterday:
> IPFW - How to allow NAT client to CVSup
> 
> Now, what if I need to follow-up another question that is not much 
> related to my original post but a little to the response that the people 
> gave me. Like for example, Mr. Aaron Siegel, answered that I should be 
> editing the /etc/rc.firewall.  Just for example again, if I wanted to 
> ask the list which should it be. Do I need to make my own rulesets or do 
> I need to use /etc/rc.firewall because, sometime before (sorry I could 
> not find it anymore...) I have read about leaving /etc/rc.firewall as it 
> should be, because it is a little outdated and that I should create my 
> own rulesets...I hope I am not sounding like I do not need answers like 
> that, I NEED THEM, because I want to learn...I just need some guidance 
> and your ideas here.
> 
well, I would leave rc.firewall as-it-is and I would create my own 
ruleset, which is basicly just a shell script.
To let it run in rc.conf at boot time, you just use 
firewall_script="/path/to/your/script.sh" instead of 
firewall_type="something" which would refer to rc.firewall.
check out /etc/defaults/rc.conf which gives you a rough overview.

> Assuming the above, do I need to post another topic for the above or 
> should I just continue to respond and ask the above question in the same 
> thread?
You should always use a new eMail for a new question. It makes live 
easier for others searching the archives.
Let's assume your first eMail was about your first custom kernel. If you 
would ask inside this eMail a second question about your own firewall 
rule set this wouldn't make much sense.

> Do I sound really stupid here?  Well, my reason for my posting this 
> non-sense question is, what if someone like me, new to FreeBSD gets a 
> response like search it in the archive...I do, but what if someone gets 
> to read the above archive and gets confused because I asked another 
> question which was not so related to the original posting.  This is just 
> an assumption...
>
your assumption is correct.

HTH

best regards,
Marian