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

Sebastian M. vevais at gmail.com
Thu Apr 16 03:49:08 UTC 2015


It does the same. Please read the wiki. 

Regards,
Sebastian M.
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:35:42PM -0500, Francis Gerund 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.
> > >
> >


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