Not happy about firewalld man pages

Jiri Popelka jpopelka at redhat.com
Mon Feb 18 13:52:42 UTC 2013


On 02/18/2013 01:35 PM, "Jørgen Thomsen" wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:46:10 +0100,Jiri Popelka wrote:
>
>>>      b) iptables --list are displaying a set of rules. From where are they loaded ?
>> I'm not sure I understand the question.
> Users of iptables are used to handling rules loaded from e.g. a file saved by iptables-save and
> managed by their own simple scripts. This is probably no longer possible.
> iptables --list is listing the rules as they always have been listed, but they cannot be found
> in /etc/sysconfig.
>   
> How about this simple addition to the firewalld man page:
>
> The firewalld configuration is loaded from XML-files in /etc/firewalld. Predefined rules files
> can be found in /usr/lib/firewalld

Added in
http://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/firewalld.git/commit/?id=b84b30f5e148bf83b07ee3566d81c2b2dec5e89c

>
> This fact is not obvious for a new user, but just specifying this is creating a framework for
> the user and improving the understanding very much. I had to spend much time to understand this
> simple fact.
>
>> All man pages point to the home page at
>> http://fedorahosted.org/firewalld/
> Basic information should be in the man pages and not via a chain of URLs not easily read from a
> command line on a computer possibly not connected to the Internet (yet).

I added the wiki URL to firewalld and firewall-cmd man pages.
I'll think more about if and what examples should we put into 
firewall-cmd man page.

--
Jiri


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