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Re: [fwtools] FWTools Problems
From:	Volker Tanger
Date:	Wed, 2 May 2007 21:27:55 +0200

Greetings!

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:40:34 -0400
"Deric Scott"  wrote:

> I am trying to use the latest versions of the FWTools applications to
> generate a document showing the configuration of a CheckPoint
> firewall I am migrating.
>   File "H:\Temp\FWDOC\fwdoc_used_objects\fwdoc_used_objects.py", line
> 56, in 
>     fwdoctxt = sys.stdin.read(MAXSIZE)
> IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
> 
>  
> 
> After playing with it, I decided just to use one of my Linux boxes to
> get things going.  Here, though, I get the following message:
[...]  
> json.ReadException: Nothing to read: ''
>
> In both environments, I am using the same command:
> perl fw1r55_to_fwdoc.pl --rules=fwrules.W --objects=objects.C
> --with_implicit_rules | fwdoc_used_objects.py | fwdoc_to_html.py

I guess the output of fw1r55_to_fwdoc.pl has a problem - probably the
program even quits with an error.

What happens if you run the generation of the FWDOC file and its
processing in two steps?

perl fw1r55_to_fwdoc.pl \
	--rules=fwrules.W \
	--objects=objects.C \
	--with_implicit_rules \
	> ruleset.fwdoc

and if that works fine:

cat ruleset.fwdoc | fwdoc_used_objects.py | fwdoc_to_html.py


I guess you already have a problem in the first step.

Bye

Volker



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