flushing nat table fails

[Carsten Spiess]

Flushing of tables other than filter fails.
Probably caused by wrong $(</proc...) construct.

When changing the line
  for table in $(</proc/net/ip_tables_names)
to
 for table in $(cat /proc/net/ip_tables_names)

(same for ip6) it works on my installation.

[Andreas Rütten (aruetten)]

This is a known bashism:

# checkbashisms iptables-persistent.init
possible bashism in iptables-persistent.init line 95 ('$(< foo)' should be '$(cat foo)'):
                for table in $(</proc/net/ip_tables_names)
possible bashism in iptables-persistent.init line 112 ('$(< foo)' should be '$(cat foo)'):
                for table in $(</proc/net/ip6_tables_names)

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[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Patch looks good, uploading, thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package iptables-persistent - 0.5.6ubuntu1

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iptables-persistent (0.5.6ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Sync on Debian (Fixes LP: #1002078)
  * fix LP: #1019857 - flushing nat table fails; Apply patch given in the bug
    by Andreas Rütten, thanks! (Closes: #683789)

iptables-persistent (0.5.6) unstable; urgency=low

  * [6b6358] Instead of checking on modules, test a working iptables more
    directly (Closes: #679840)
  * [1db63c] Remove dependency on kmod
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:50:38 -0500