I am on a system running 12.3 and mounted the system disk of a 12.2-system.
is it possible to copy the firewall configuration files from the 12.2-disk to the system running 12.3?
which files are relevant?
if not, can I access the list of opened ports on the 12.2-disk in a readable way to make it easier to enter them via yast to the firewall config of the 12.3 system?
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 18:26:06 +0000, suse paul wrote:
> I am on a system running 12.3 and mounted the system disk of a
> 12.2-system.
>
> is it possible to copy the firewall configuration files from the
> 12.2-disk to the system running 12.3?
> which files are relevant?
>
> if not, can I access the list of opened ports on the 12.2-disk in a
> readable way to make it easier to enter them via yast to the firewall
> config of the 12.3 system?
Grab the firewall related files from /etc/sysconfig maybe? I haven’t
tried it, but I don’t see why that wouldn’t work.
Jim
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Yes, the file is called “/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2” and can be copied between systems. You must run this terminal command “sudo /sbin/SuSEfirewall2” after any changes to go into effect if you change this file on the target system.
Thank You,
worked great! thanks!
Happy to be of help and that the solution worked for you.
Thank You,
This is good to know and I wondered if it would solve my problem.
After I did a new install, I had to dig into the firewall to open up a port to permit CUPS to accept remote printing requests.
It would be a lot easier for me to just copy this file, if this would fix it.
Will it ?
thanks
As far as I know your entire firewall configuration can be transferred between PC’s with this file in openSUSE.
Thank You,
On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 06:32:40 +0000, hextejas wrote:
> This is good to know and I wondered if it would solve my problem.
>
> After I did a new install, I had to dig into the firewall to open up a
> port to permit CUPS to accept remote printing requests.
> It would be a lot easier for me to just copy this file, if this would
> fix it.
>
> Will it ?
>
> thanks
It should - try it and see. That’s how the rest of us would find out if
we didn’t know (and, speaking for myself, I don’t know because I’ve never
had to do that before - but logically it makes sense).
Back up the old file first so if it doesn’t, you can get back to where
you were.
Jim
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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On 2013-11-04 07:32, jdmcdaniel3 wrote:
>
> hextejas;2595379 Wrote:
>> This is good to know and I wondered if it would solve my problem.
>>
>> After I did a new install, I had to dig into the firewall to open up a
>> port to permit CUPS to accept remote printing requests.
>> It would be a lot easier for me to just copy this file, if this would
>> fix it.
>>
>> Will it ?
> As far as I know your entire firewall configuration can be transferred
> between PC’s with this file in openSUSE.
A note about that.
You can copy the firewall config file across the same openSUSE release.
If the versions are different, I would instead compare the files and
transfer the settings by hand, because the new version may have
additions and/or removals.
I would copy the other version with a different name, and then open both
with “meld”, which is a KDE editor that opens two files side by side,
marking the differences in both. You can transfer paragraphs across with
a single click or edit any of the files.
(this assumes there are no custom additions, they are on a different
file - but if you made them, you already know where they are 
)
On the other hand, the trick may not work since openSUSE 13.1, because
the network interface will no longer be named eth0, wlan0, etc. At least
you’ll have to edit those.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)