Re: ipfw: ipfw: Adding record failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

On Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:24:54 -0700
David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 08:07:33PM +0900, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
> > ...
> > The simplest approach would be to use temporary file, rather than pipe.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
> 
> Certainly -- as a circumvention for the change in behavior.  (But note
> that when this is being done, not all file systems may yet be mounted.)
> 
> It was in the process of implementing such a circumvention that I
> realized that I had a simple way to reproduce evidence of the problem.
> (Reminder: piping the commands to "/sbin/ipfw /dev/stdin" still
> works in stable/14, and has worked at least since 2008 -- (almost)
> certainly rather longer.)
> 
> Peace,
> david
> -- 
> David H. Wolfskill                              david@catwhisker.org
> 
> See https://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.

So need directory somewhere in root fs is needed?
For example, (currently nonexistent) /etc/ipfw to write temporary file.
Note that root fs needs to be already mounted rw.

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>