service iptables save, systemctl, and unhelpful error messages

[Slava Zanko]

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15.02.2012 17:45, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:

> Thomas Woerner has been working on a more user friendly firewall
> solution for Fedora so firewall solution is in a bit of state of flux in
> Fedora at this point in time and explains why things are as they are.
> 
> He was going to push this in at the same time as systemd as in Fedora
> F15 but due to various reasons he backed out of it at that time.
> ( but it is one of F17 features )
> 
> Experienced admins dont use service iptables blah anyway ( they use
> iptables commands directly ) so it hardly matters to them documentation
> should however be updated for those that actually use service iptables
> blah to point this out so you should file a DOC bug for it.

Experienced admins use shorewall (http://www.shorewall.net/). Would be
cool if this firewall implementation will be default in Fedora.


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WBR, Slavaz.
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