Package: ferm
Version: 2.0.7-1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/ferm

It is sometimes natural to want to write rules such as this:

if eth0 {
  chain INPUT ACCEPT;
  chain OUTPUT ACCEPT;
}

However, ferm complains:

Error in ferm.conf line 1:
if <--
Chain must be specified

This requirement seems rather arbitrary; in fact it can be worked around
by adding a chain directive before the `if', but this causes warnings
when the chain is overridden within the block. It would seem to be much
better if ferm would check that a chain is specified only once the `;' is
seen.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-net5501
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ferm depends on:
ii  debconf                  1.5.24          Debian configuration management sy
ii  iptables                 1.4.2-6         administration tools for packet fi
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-20          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages ferm recommends:
ii  libnet-dns-perl               0.63-2     Perform DNS queries from a Perl sc

ferm suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded



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