[SOLVED] regarding ufw status --again.

andrewysk · 03-03-2022, 05:56 PM

Sorry, i am confused again
I want to check if my ufw is up or down, because kdeconnect is not working right.
When checked with systemctl, it said active
when checked with ufw status, it said inactive !!
what wrong ?!
which should i believe ?

Code:

$ systemctl status ufw                
● ufw.service - CLI Netfilter Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Sun 2022-02-27 19:18:31 CET; 4 days ago
    Process: 404 ExecStart=/usr/lib/ufw/ufw-init start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 404 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 9ms

Feb 27 19:18:31 user1-pc systemd[1]: Starting CLI Netfilter Manager...
Feb 27 19:18:31 user1-pc ufw-init[410]: Skip starting firewall: ufw (not enabled)
Feb 27 19:18:31 user1-pc systemd[1]: Finished CLI Netfilter Manager.

$ sudo ufw status verbose
Status: inactive
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tmick · 03-03-2022, 06:15 PM

If you have the Gui for it does it shows as active?

scasey · 03-03-2022, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewysk

Sorry, i am confused again
I want to check if my ufw is up or down, because kdeconnect is not working right.
When checked with systemctl, it said active
when checked with ufw status, it said inactive !!
what wrong ?!
which should i believe ?

Code:

$ systemctl status ufw                
● ufw.service - CLI Netfilter Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ufw.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Sun 2022-02-27 19:18:31 CET; 4 days ago
    Process: 404 ExecStart=/usr/lib/ufw/ufw-init start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 404 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        CPU: 9ms

Feb 27 19:18:31 user1-pc systemd[1]: Starting CLI Netfilter Manager...
Feb 27 19:18:31 user1-pc ufw-init[410]: Skip starting firewall: ufw (not enabled)
Feb 27 19:18:31 user1-pc systemd[1]: Finished CLI Netfilter Manager.

$ sudo ufw status verbose
Status: inactive
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The systemctl status is reporting that ufw didn’t start, and why.
Looks to be what happened at boot, yes?

michaelk · 03-03-2022, 07:04 PM

Deja vu?
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...fw-4175707244/

Code:

[Unit]
Description=Uncomplicated firewall
Documentation=man:ufw(8)
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/lib/ufw/ufw-init start quiet
ExecStop=/lib/ufw/ufw-init stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Basically RemainAfterExit=yes will keep the service active even when all its processes exited. The ufw-init is a SySV style script that if ufw is enabled will load the saved firewall rules.

ondoho · 03-04-2022, 12:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewysk

Sorry, i am confused again
I want to check if my ufw is up or down, because kdeconnect is not working right.
When checked with systemctl, it said active
when checked with ufw status, it said inactive !!

Make it so that both are active and stop obsessing about it.

Code:

sudo systemctl start ufw
sudo systemctl enable ufw
sudo ufw enable