On 10/8/2013 10:56 PM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>> On 10/7/2013 6:18 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
>>>> Hi Tom and all,
>>>>
>>>> I started to play a bit with the AutoBL action on a CentOS 6 box and
>>>> ran
>>>> into the following problems:
>>>>
>>>> 1) The action.AutoBL doesn't work for me until I patch it like so:
>>>>
>>>> --- /usr/share/shorewall/action.AutoBL.orig     2013-10-01
>>>> 00:59:42.000000000 +0200
>>>> +++ /usr/share/shorewall/action.AutoBL  2013-10-07 14:44:31.530841099
>>>> +0200
>>>> @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
>>>>  DEFAULTS -,60,5,2,300,DROP,info
>>>>
>>>>  ?begin perl
>>>> +
>>>> +use Shorewall::Config;
>>>> +
>>>>  my ( $event, $interval, $count, $successive, $bltime, $disposition,
>>>> $level ) = get_action_params(7);
>>>>
>>>>  fatal_error "The event name parameter to AutoBL is required"
>>>> unless supplied $event;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) The iptables package of CentOS 6 doesn't have the "--reap" option.
>>>> From
>>>> some Google searches it seems that the same applies to a number of
>>>> distributions and iptables version, even new iptables versions. My
>>>> question is, is there a way to change action.IfEvent to work without
>>>> the
>>>> "--reap" option?
>>>
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> Please try the attached patch. It implements a REAP_OPTION capability
>>> that should allow AutoBL to work without --reap.
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> thanks for the quick patch, it works excellent for me!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Simon
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> do you intend to add this patch to an upcoming release? I didn't find it
> in 4.5.21.1 which is why I ask.

Yes -- it will be in 4.5.22. I don't like to add new capabilties in a
point release, which is why it is not in 4.5.21.1.

-Tom
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