Dear Maintainer,

I've installed and configured Shorewall6 (5.2.3.4-1) on a Debian bullseye
using sysvinit.

However, when starting the service using the provided /etc/init.d/shorewall6
script (i.e., running "/etc/init.d/shorewall6 start"), I got this error:

    /etc/init.d/shorewall6: 20: test: /sbin/shorewall: unexpected operator

and Shorewall6 did not start.

This is due to a bug on line 15 of this script: the Shorewall6 executable
is defined as

    SRWL='/sbin/shorewall -6'

and then its availability is tested on line 20 with

    test -x $SRWL || exit 0

which will indeed fail with the error reported above.

This was fixed upstream in the following commit:
https://gitlab.com/shorewall/code/-/commit/b7f2d1b22e42a67f75de475b28ad04d9dca81bf8

Would it be possible to cherry-pick this commit into the versions packaged
in Debian, please?

Thank you very much in advance!

Glop

This has been fixed in the version of Shorewall in the upcoming release,
Bookworm.

J.

close 1032357 5.2.8-1~exp1
thanks