I'm sure you need to do something after running that command to get the firewall to read the plist file. Do you need to restart, or is there simply a daemon you have to quit and relaunch?

Kirk

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nope, just the command.

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MANY, MANY thanks for this post! Ever since I upgraded to Leopard, my firewall status "checker" using GeekTool has not worked, as I did not know what they new plist file was called. Using the information in this post, I was able to edit the GeekTool command, and it seems to work, as shown below:

if [ `defaults read "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.alf" globalstate` -eq 1 ];then EX=0;else EX=1;fi;exit $EX

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