Bug 472762

A quick update:

It seems this bug is not always reproducible. I just now rebooted the machine and all things went well so far. I'll report back when more info is available.

Thanks.

Hm. I just tried /sbin/shorewall save on an F-9 machine, and SElinux actually prevents the save file from being created (which is itself a bug that needs fixing). If you have SElinux in enforcing mode, I expect you're not actually creating the save file. So, can you confirm that the save file actually exists and has content as a first step.

Regarding shorewal 4.2.x - I don't plan to upgrade F-9 to the 4.2 releases, as it is incompatible with the 4.0.x release config files in several ways, so upgrading may break people's working set ups. 4.2.x is available in F-10 though.

As an aside, note that starting the firewall using -f isn't actually noticably faster than recompiling the rule set if you use the perl compiler. It is faster than the legacy shell compiler though.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Hm. I just tried /sbin/shorewall save on an F-9 machine, and SElinux actually
> prevents the save file from being created (which is itself a bug that needs
> fixing). If you have SElinux in enforcing mode, I expect you're not actually
> creating the save file. So, can you confirm that the save file actually exists
> and has content as a first step.
> 
> Regarding shorewal 4.2.x - I don't plan to upgrade F-9 to the 4.2 releases, as
> it is incompatible with the 4.0.x release config files in several ways, so
> upgrading may break people's working set ups. 4.2.x is available in F-10
> though.

Hi,

I have experienced the same SELinux denial before so I changed the offending file's (/var/lib/shorewall/save) SELinux context type to "iptables_t" and there were no further access denials.

Also, at the time the bug was triggered, SELinux was in permissive mode...

OK, but did /var/lib/shorewall/save and /var/lib/shorewall/restore actually contain content after you'd executed shorewall save? Knowing that will help us work out if the problem is at save or restore time.

Created attachment 324686 [details]
/var/lib/shorewall/restore

Created attachment 324687 [details]
/var/lib/shorewall/save

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