ufw-gtk fails to run if LOG_FILE not found

[baudm]

Original issue 17 created by baudm on 2011-09-10T13:15:11.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. make sure LOG_FILE doesn't exist
2. try to run ufw-gtk

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? ufw-gtk fails to run; error messages attached

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? 0.3.0, Sabayon

Please provide any additional information below. Hello again. :) Systems which don't set-up logging to ufw.log (the log goes usually to /var/log/messages by default) are mostly affected. Proposed fix: if LOG_FILE doesn't exist, display message that for the function to work it is required that ufw (syslog) saves messages to ufw.log.

[baudm]

Comment #1 originally posted by baudm on 2011-09-10T13:52:58.000Z:

Hello. :)

You can check the fix here: https://github.com/baudm/ufw-frontends/tree/hotfix/check-for-ufw-log

What I did was use /var/log/messages in case /var/log/ufw.log didn't exist. This should work because the format of the log entries remain the same regardless of where they are stored.

I'll merge this branch (and maybe the 'hotfix/rules-export' branch too) to master and release 0.3.1 once this issue and issue 16 is fixed. :)

[baudm]

Comment #2 originally posted by baudm on 2011-09-10T19:02:05.000Z:

I generated and applied the patch as I'd done in issue 16.

Checked with logs saved to ufw.log and messages (ufw.log renamed, syslog configuration adjusted), everything is fine. Great work!

[baudm]

Comment #3 originally posted by baudm on 2011-09-10T19:05:28.000Z:

I forgot to add: checked also with both patches applied (for the two issues), all fine. :)

[baudm]

Comment #4 originally posted by baudm on 2011-09-11T02:42:20.000Z:

0.3.1 will be released very soon. Thanks for your help. :)