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martin77

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Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 111

ufw not loading automatically at boot time

Hi,

I discovered issuing a "sudo ufw enable" or doing a "su (then) ufw enable" activates ufw for the very session it's invoqued but does not make ufw run automatically at next boot as it should do (Firewall is active and enabled on system startup)

I know Linux is secure enough at the point of render a software firewall almost useless (I'm even behind a router with it's own firewalling) but I'm intrigued about what can be happening here. Sorry if this if this question is dumb but I'm a Ubuntu converted and needs to learn LOT about Linux and specially Arch internals to catch you up guys.

soulicia

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Registered: 2010-04-09

Posts: 14

Re: ufw not loading automatically at boot time

Add ufw to your daemons list in /etc/rc.conf (at the last line).
In my rc.conf I put ufw just before crond.

martin77

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Registered: 2010-03-14

Posts: 111

Re: ufw not loading automatically at boot time

Cool, thanks a lot and sorry for the n00b question.

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