On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 01:56:54 +0100, Carlo Stemberger wrote:
> At the moment all seems to work as expected, with an exception: the
> program doesn't start at the system boot; however I can run Shorewall with
> both
> `# service shorewall start` and `# shorewall start`.
>
> Please note that I set `startup=1` in `/etc/default/shorewall` as
I have only worked with this under Ubuntu (not Debian per se), but I
believe the issue you are seeing is that the Shorewall documentation has
not been updated to reflect the use of systemd instead of the old-style
/etc/init.d/shorewall script.
In particular, it was that script which checked for the value of
"startup" as set in the /etc/default/shorewall file -- but the
shorewall.service file used under systemd does not care about that
setting.
To turn on automatic startup of shorewall under systemd, you need to
"enable" the service:
# systemctl enable shorewall
The Loaded: line in the output of "systemctl status shorewall" will
confirm (with the word "enabled" or "disabled") whether or not the
service is set for auto-startup.
Note that "service shorewall start" translates to "systemctl start
shorewall" under systemd, which starts up Shorewall right then,
but doesn't configure it to auto-start at boot time later.
Nathan
