Your new package is not the problem, here. It seems that the old
version of your package provided a broken prerm script. So, when dpkg
try to uninstall it before installing the new version, it just
crashes. What you could do is just modifying the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/rcf.prerm file, in order to remove the bad lines,
those who try to remove /etc/init.d/firewall. Or, maybe cleaner, just
do a :
echo -n "" > /etc/init.d/firewall
which will create an empty firewall file, which will be deleted by
dpkg.
But, be quiet, that isn't a problem (again! :) with your new package,
I did something to that effect, and deleted all the rcf.* files in
/var/lib/dpkg/info, and it now works! the replace/uninstall also
seems to work, which is good!
However, I get some errors (both the same, though) in the
post-install (I think):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/rcf-5.0.1# dpkg -i rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 47289 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace rcf 5.0.1-1 (using rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb) ...
/etc/init.d/firewall: [: =: unary operator expected
Unpacking replacement rcf ...
Setting up rcf (5.0.1-1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/firewall ...
/etc/init.d/firewall: [: =: unary operator expected
---
this is the /etc/init.d/firewall file:
#!/bin/sh
#
# firewall This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# the firewall.
#
# chkconfig: 2345 11 90
# description: rc.firewall is an ipchains-based firewall script with \
# extensive support for network services, masquerading, port \
# forwarding, and IP accounting.
# processname:
# config: /etc/firewall.conf
# Source function library.
#. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/network/options
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -x /usr/sbin/rc.firewall ] || exit 0
[ -f /etc/firewall.conf ] || exit 0
RETVAL=0
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start|restart|force-reload)
/usr/sbin/rc.firewall
RETVAL=$?
if [ $RETVAL eq 0 ]
then
touch /var/lock/subsys/firewall
echo "Firewall Started."
else
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/firewall
echo "Error Starting Firewall!"
fi
;;
stop)
/usr/sbin/rc.firewall --accept-all
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL eq 0 ] \
&& rm -f /var/lock/subsys/firewall
;;
status)
TOTAL_RULES="`ipchains -L -n|egrep -c
'^(MASQ|ACCEPT|DENY|REJECT|-) *'`"
echo "$TOTAL_RULES IPchains Firewall Rules (includes
IP Accounting)"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0`
{start|stop|restart|force-reload|status}"
RETVAL=1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL
---
I cannot see any problems, however, and because of those 'unary
operator expected' errors, I cannot complete the install or start the
firewall!
Can anyone see any problems with the /etc/init.d/firewall file? It
works (I presume) on RedHat and other systems, since I have installed
it on my RedHat gateway and it works fine!
thanks
