docs/102334: Handbook and man pages for firewalls are inconsistent
Kevin Oberman
oberman at es.net
Mon Aug 21 01:10:10 UTC 2006
>Number: 102334
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Handbook and man pages for firewalls are inconsistent
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Aug 21 01:10:09 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kevin Oberman
>Release: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
ESent--The Energy Sciences Network
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD slan.es.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #21: Sat Aug 12 22:41:34 PDT 2006 root at slan.es.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/IBM-T43 i386
>Description:
The handbook and the man page for firewalls are inconsistent. I
suspect both might be correct, but it would probably be less confusing
if they were consistent.
The man page recommends adding 'firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf"' to
/etc/rc.conf while the handbook call for
'firewall_script="/etc/ipfw.rules"'. The handbook seems more intuitive
to me, but they really should be consistent.
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
Select either method and make man pate and handbook consistent.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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