[arch-general] How to autostart ufw on system startup?

Francis Gerund ranrund at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 03:35:42 UTC 2015


Okay, so do I do

1)  sudo systemctl enable ufw

or,

2) sudo systemctl enable ufw.service

or, both?



On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Chi Hsuan Yen <yan12125 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Francis,
>
> Just simply run the following command as root or with sudo:
>
> systemctl enable ufw.service
>
> Yen Chi Hsuan
>
> On 16 April 2015 at 10:39, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > How do I get ufw to start automatically upon Arch system startup?
> >
> > The Arch wiki Uncomplicated Firewall pages says:
> > "Start ufw as systemd service to have it running and enable it to make it
> > available after boot. "
> >
> > How do I do that?
> >
> > Then it shows an example configuration (can't I just keep the default:
> deny
> > all incoming, allow all outgoing)?
> >
> > Then it says:
> > "The next line is only needed *once* the first time you install the
> > package:
> >
> > # ufw enable"
> >
> > That does not seem to be true - I have to do "sudo ufw enable" every
> > time I restart the system.
> >
> > Then, it says:
> > "Then enable the ufw service with systemctl."
> >
> > How?
> >
> > Bottom line: ufw works okay, I just want it to start automatically
> > when the system starts up.
> >
>


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