I have now found that wheezy version of uif breaks without this patch. Seems a kernel update since September has dropped the long deprecated syntax "--something !" and now needs "! --something"
If I can work out how to poke the bug tracking system I may increase the bug severity as this is now an active bug affecting system security. Regards Alex Owen On 16 September 2012 13:04, Alex Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > As stated in the original bug report the patch changes the order of > the "!" in the generated rules from the old deprecated position to the > new position. > I'm a bit concerned that during the lifetime of squeeze that the > kernel will change and stop accepting the old deprecated syntax. I > have already experienced this on uif compiled rulesets that I have > loaded into a Scientific Linux (redhat clone) kernel. > > Best regards > Alex Owen >
