On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:28:41AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 03:19:21AM -0500, Steve Ames wrote:
> >
> > Hey... I just type 'ipfw -a list' on the command line and got back an
> > invalid argument error. That confused me for a bit so I poked around
> > for a while and then it just started working again. A bit more poking
> > and I discovered that it fails if there is a file called 'list' in
> > the directory the command is being executed from.
> >
> > Seems ipfw checks for a file containing commands before it checks to
> > see if you've issued a valid command?
> >
> > A bit of experimenting ('touch flush', 'ipfw flush') seems to indicate
> > that its true for most commands. Perhaps this is intentional but its
> > behavior confused me a bit... And it means I can't leave a file called
> > 'list' laying around as then /etc/security output is wrong.
> >
> Also known as PR 16179. I was planning on looking at it today :-)
Yep. That'd be it. My bad for not checking PRs first. Thank you for
looking into this.
-Steve
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