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WHAT LED UP/WHAT I DID
I installed Debian testing. I installed ufw. I wrote some default
incoming/allow outgoing rules to ufw, enabled and started ufw with systemctl,
and tried reloading ufw with the rules.
michael@debian-hp:~$ sudo ufw default deny incoming
Default incoming policy changed to 'deny'
(be sure to update your rules accordingly)
michael@debian-hp:~$ sudo ufw default allow outgoing
Default outgoing policy changed to 'allow'
(be sure to update your rules accordingly)
michael@debian-hp:~$ sudo ufw reload
Firewall not enabled (skipping reload)
michael@debian-hp:~$ sudo systemctl status ufw
● ufw.service - Uncomplicated firewall
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; enabled; preset:
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Active: active (exited) since Wed 2026-06-10 14:27:32 EDT; 7min ago
Invocation: b6ece597606c4ac0ba8919880d5ed5ac
Docs: man:ufw(8)
Main PID: 4145 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Mem peak: 2M
CPU: 13ms
Jun 10 14:27:32 debian-hp systemd[1]: Starting ufw.service - Uncomplicated
fire>
Jun 10 14:27:32 debian-hp systemd[1]: Finished ufw.service - Uncomplicated
fire>
michael@debian-hp:~$ sudo ufw status verbose
Status: inactive
OUTCOME
ufw didn't reload with new rules
EXPECTED OUTCOME
ufw reloads with new rules