I had tried disabling firewalld from systemctl and even uninstalling firewalld, and then enabled ufw in systemctl, and then executed ufw enable, and the ufw status is active.
I had followed the steps to install rpmsphere and then install gufw, and I see gufw in my software selections, but when I execute it after entering my authentication information, I get nothing. It’s as if I just ran a blank command.
Is there any entry in var/log I can look into to see why gufw didn’t output anything?
Hi @Captainplanet! Welcome to the community! Please do take a few minutes to go over the introductory posts in #start-here when you have the time. They contain lots of useful information.
Are you sure using ufw of gufw is a good idea? As far as I understand, they both are just a gui/frontend to iptables, and Fedora uses firewalld instead as it’s interface. And it’s pretty simple, by the way.
Maybe if you’re set to doing this this way (this is a free operating system, you’re free to do what you want with it) you need to look up removing firewalld (yep, I saw that you’ve already tried) and enabling iptables instead.
Me personally, I use firewalld, it works good for me, easy to configure and easy to transfer my customizations to another machines.
I know I can just use ufw on its own, but I am trying to find out why gufw doesn’t work. Never looked into debugging things in fedora and I want to experience the process to figure things out.
@Captainplanet, as far as I can understand, *gufw is a graphical front-end to ufw. So for gufw to work you should have ufw working.
ufw, on the other hand, is the command-line utility and as such should provide you with plenty information (in the cli and/or in the log file) about it’s actions and problems.
So maybe you should try to play with ufw at first, check it’s output and it’s logs – and when you’re sure you can do some basic stuff with ufw – then you can return to your experiments with gufw.
Obligatory note: the only third party repository supported by the Fedora community is RPMFusion, because it is also maintained by Fedora community members and thus, follows thesame packaging guidelines and review processes as Fedora does.
If you are using other third party repositories, in general, please keep in mind that you may have to speak to the providers for help.