Hello,
I run ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS.
When I enabled ufw, there was a message saying that ufw would be enabled at system startup. Does this mean that ufw will be enabled automatically when ubuntu starts? Is any user intervention necessary once ubuntu starts to get ufw to start and set the iptables rules? I am asking this because on older versions of ubuntu, I was using firestarter and it was supposed to set the iptables rules automatically when ubuntu starts. So, I always assumed that the firewall rules would be set without any user intervention during boot-up.But, on one occasion, after booting up, I found that there were no iptables rules set(they were empty and all default rules were set to ACCEPT) and I had to start firestarter manually to set the iptables rules. Has anyone had a problem like this with ufw? Right now, once I log in, I use the command "sudo ufw status verbose" to make sure that ufw is active. Is this step necessary? Or once ufw is set, can I just forget about checking to see if the firewall is active at later boot ups?
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