{"id":584,"date":"2014-12-03T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devolve.net\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2014-12-03T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T20:13:15","slug":"fix-broken-apf-package-debian-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/fix-broken-apf-package-debian-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix the broken APF package on Debian\/Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-03-14.30.02.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screenshot-2014-12-03-14.30.02.png\" alt=\"R-fx networks logo\" width=\"211\" height=\"59\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-585\" \/><\/a>The Debian \/ Ubuntu package for Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) seems a bit unmaintained. By default it won&#8217;t run without some initial tweaking. Note that they probably want everyone to just download and run the installer from their site nowadays, but that&#8217;s not how I roll (usually).<\/p>\n<pre>cd \/etc\/apf-firewall\/internals\r\nsudo cp -p functions.apf functions.apf.orig<\/pre>\n<p>In <code>functions.apf<\/code>, change the line <\/p>\n<pre>elif [ \"$KREL\" == \"2.6\" ]; then<\/pre>\n<p> to <\/p>\n<pre>elif [ \"$KREL\" == \"2.6\" -o \"${KREL:0:1}\" == '3' ]; then<\/pre>\n<p>That allows the basic functionality of the software to work. Next, for the sake of upgrade-ability, I copy <code>\/etc\/apf-firewall\/conf.apf<\/code> to <code>\/etc\/apf-firewall\/conf.apf.my<\/code>. Then the only change needed to the installed config is to source the <code>.my<\/code> file. Here&#8217;s the bottom of the file:<\/p>\n<pre>##\r\n# [Import misc. conf]\r\n##\r\n. \/etc\/apf-firewall\/conf.apf.my\r\n\r\n# Internal variable file\r\nCNFINT=\"$INSTALL_PATH\/internals\/internals.conf\"\r\n. $CNFINT<\/pre>\n<p>Since it won&#8217;t work if you try to source the <code>internals.conf<\/code> file twice, you need to make sure that the last line in the <code>.my<\/code> file is commented or removed. Now you can edit the other values in the <code>.my<\/code> file to your liking. Remember to turn off devel mode and change <code>\/etc\/default\/apf-firewall<\/code> when you&#8217;re satisfied with any config changes, then restart the service in the usual way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Debian \/ Ubuntu package for Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) seems a bit unmaintained. By default it won&#8217;t run without some initial tweaking. Note that they probably want everyone to just download and run the installer from their site nowadays, but that&#8217;s not how I roll (usually). cd \/etc\/apf-firewall\/internals sudo cp -p functions.apf functions.apf.orig In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[34,16,17,24,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolve.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}