cvsup kills /etc/ipf.rules !?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 05:57:42PM +0200, Yaraghchi, Stephan wrote:
> Hi fellows,
> 
> I was running cvsup on a FBSD 4.9-RELEASE #5 box
> with the following supfile:
> 
> *default host=cvsup6.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> src-all
> 
> when suddenly all ip connections broke down.
> 
> Further investigation turned up that /etc/ipf.rules
> somehow disappeared.
> Since the default stance in the kernel file is set to
> deny all the box reacted as expected, though.
> 
> Any ideas?

Sounds very strange.  I suspect something else is going on here
instead.

Kris
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