On 10/18/2014 1:53 PM, Thomas D. wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Shorewall 4.6.4.2 is now available for download.
>>
>> Problems corrected since 4.6.4.1:
>>
>> 1)  Setting LOGBACKEND=ipt_LOG could result in the following startup
>>     failure at boot:
>>
>>        Starting shorewall ...
>>        /var/lib/shorewall/firewall: line 2080: echo: write error: No
>>                   such file or directory
>>           WARNING: Unable to set log backend to ipt_LOG
> 
> This is not fixed. Now I'll get the following error:
> 
>> /var/lib/shorewall/.start: line 2075: echo: write error: No such file or 
>> directory
>>    WARNING: Unable to set log backend to ipt_LOG
> 
> The only change between 4.6.4.1 and 4.6.4.2:
> Now the error is in "/var/lib/shorewall/.start" instead of
> "/var/lib/shorewall/firewall"...
> 
> # grep LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
> LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY=Yes
> 

Works here:

root@gateway:~# tail .bash_history
tar -xf /home/teastep/shorewall/build/4.6.4/shorewall-4.6.4.2.tar.bz2
cd shorewall-4.6.4.2/
./install.sh
shorewall retart
shorewall restart
shorewall save
tail -n 100 /var/log/shorewall-init.log
vi /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
shorewall restart
reboot <============================
root@gateway:~# fgrep BACKEND /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
LOG_BACKEND=LOG
root@gateway:~# fgrep HELPERS /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
AUTOHELPERS=Yes
HELPERS=
LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY=Yes
root@gateway:~# tail -n 25 /var/log/shorewall-init.log
Oct 18 14:38:45 Stopping Shorewall....
Oct 18 14:38:45 Processing /etc/shorewall-common/tcclear ...
Oct 18 14:38:45 Running /usr/local/sbin/iptables-restore...
Oct 18 14:38:45 IPv4 Forwarding Enabled
Oct 18 14:38:45 Processing /etc/shorewall/stopped ...
Oct 18 14:38:45 done.
Oct 18 14:44:07 Starting Shorewall....
Oct 18 14:44:07 Initializing...
Oct 18 14:44:07 Processing /etc/shorewall/init ...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Processing /etc/shorewall-common/tcclear ...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Setting up ARP filtering...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Setting up Route Filtering...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Setting up Martian Logging...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Setting up Accept Source Routing...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Setting up log backend
Oct 18 14:44:08 Setting up Proxy ARP...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Adding Providers...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Null Routing the RFC 1918 subnets
Oct 18 14:44:08 Preparing iptables-restore input...
Oct 18 14:44:08 Running /usr/local/sbin/iptables-restore...
Oct 18 14:44:09 Preparing arptables-restore input...
Oct 18 14:44:09 Running /sbin/arptables-restore...
Oct 18 14:44:09 IPv4 Forwarding Enabled
Oct 18 14:44:09 Processing /etc/shorewall/started ...
Oct 18 14:44:09 done.
root@gateway:~#

Do you have a stale copy of helpers in /etc/shorewall?

-Tom
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