Please read the original post... - Andrea
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Noyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 4:25 PM Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] The community > Andrea, > Please send this post to the LEAF devel list. Many of our project > members are working on a similar task. The lead developer for a web > interface/graphical configuration is Lynn Avants. Please let me know if > you need anything. Thanks. > > http://leaf-project.org/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=12&page_id=5 > > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:59, Andrea Galmacci - awd* wrote: > > > > > > I encourage all who have the Zen of ShoreWall to rise up and let your > > > voice be heard! Carpe Diem! > > > > > > > I'm following the list since March last year - I think Thad correctly > > pointed out what Tom showed us in the past months - do something for the > > rest of us, the community, sharing his competences and spending his spare > > time - a precious element for all of us - for the others: that's great! > > > > I've learnt the few Linux I needed to boot and sligthly modify Bering distro > > by J. Nilo > > (http://leaf.sourceforge.net/article.php?sid=63): > > I'm the last one of the list entitled to give suggestions and to offer > > solution to everyday's problem. > > > > I've started to develop the web interface to Shorewall just because it was > > my intention to assemble a commercial product (after I found an embedded PC > > 3xLAN that I bought) - it is still my intention to go that way and sell the > > product as a combination of the specific HW + Bering + Shorewall + my web > > interface: in the meanwhile I'd like to share what I've done with the > > community. > > > > Please consider that: > > > > 1. I'm a developer in the application server environment (Macromedia CF MX > > under Windoze) - I'm a Linux rookie; > > 2. I've decided that Webmin was too much in terms of load for my embedded > > Bering - so I decided to use thttpd as a web server: the web interface is > > built from the Weblet example; > > 3. the web server runs as root - that's in most's opinion, as a matter of > > facts, a BAD approach for security issues; > > 4. the interface is not complete but it offers the possibility to modify > > Shorewall scripts maintaining full compatibility with Tom's original > > scripting, launching Shorewall commands (start, stop, ...) and offering full > > logs visibility. > > 5. Page titles and subtitles are in italian - I guess you'll be able to > > understand the meaning anyhow. > > 6. I cannot ensure to be able to have enough time and knowledge to give the > > right answers to your potential questions: please don't flame me for that; > > 7. I will be for sure not able to give answer like '...in RH8.0 do that and > > in SuSEyx do this'. > > 8. Sometimes the system is offline for reboot and testing - sometimes it is > > detached from the net for more than 48 hours... again, please be patient. > > > > Said that, if you want to test drive the interface, the URL is > > http://62.110.196.252:8080 - andrea:andrea as login. > > > > Please be patient if what you'll see is not what you were expecting for: > > that's what I've done with the best of my knowledge (and most of my after > > hours). > > > > In the remote opportunity that part of the community will like it, it will > > be downloadable from some URL (still to be defined) in LRP (tgz) format. > > > > Any comment and indication is more than welcome... > > > > > > Thank you Tom for the human example you've given us (beside Shorewall > > itself). > > Thanks to all of you for your contribution. > > -- > Mike Noyes <mhnoyes @ users.sourceforge.net> > http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ > http://leaf-project.org/ http://sitedocs.sf.net/ http://ffl.sf.net/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Shorewall-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
