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

[Chi Hsuan Yen]

Hello Francis,

Both commands are equivalent. systemctl automatically adds the .service
suffix is not specified. Just pick one.

Yen Chi Hsuan


On 16 April 2015 at 11:35, Francis Gerund <ranrund at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> > >
> >
>