Re: get & set firewall status

2014-05-20 Thread Edward Marczak
D'oh...brain slip: /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw is what you want. No man page, but there's a --help flag. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:05 AM, 2551 <2551p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20 May 2014, at 19:48, Edward Marczak wrote: > >> This is the firewall represented in >> system_p

Re: get & set firewall status

2014-05-20 Thread 2551
On 20 May 2014, at 19:48, Edward Marczak wrote: > This is the firewall represented in > system_profiler output, so, check out the man page for (or use otool > on) afctl. Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've done an exhaustive search, but there's nothing called 'afctl' on my system (latest

Re: get & set firewall status

2014-05-20 Thread Edward Marczak
It's still present on Mavericks, but the man page for ipfw reads: "This utility is DEPRECATED. Please use pfctl(8) instead." Also, aside from the traditional port-based firewall, the firewall you enable/disable in the security pref pane is an application-level firewall, separate from ipfw or pf.

Re: get & set firewall status

2014-05-19 Thread Marco S Hyman
On May 19, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote: > Out of curiosity, in which version of the OS is pf taking over for ipfw? The switch started in Lion. I don't know if ipfw has been completely replaced. I seem to remember that some things were still being done in ipfw. Or maybe I'm thinking

Re: get & set firewall status

2014-05-19 Thread Alex Zavatone
Out of curiosity, in which version of the OS is pf taking over for ipfw? On May 19, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote: > > On May 19, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> It’s ipfw under the hood; a web-search for that might turn up some info. >> Also, I suggest asking on the darwin-

Re: get & set firewall status

2014-05-19 Thread Marco S Hyman
On May 19, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > It’s ipfw under the hood; a web-search for that might turn up some info. > Also, I suggest asking on the darwin-userlevel list, which is a more > appropriate forum for this question since it isn’t about Cocoa. ipfw is deprecated. pf -- see pf

Re: get & set firewall status

2014-05-19 Thread Jens Alfke
On May 16, 2014, at 6:56 PM, 2551 <2551p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a Cocoa way to get get and set the status of the built-in OS X > Firewall? It’s ipfw under the hood; a web-search for that might turn up some info. Also, I suggest asking on the darwin-userlevel list, which is a more appr