Do you need to reload after adding a rule in ufw?

Question

Do you need to run any of these commands:

sudo ufw reload
sudo ufw disable
sudo ufw enable

after adding a rule via sudo ufw allow?

score 41 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '17 at 19:53

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No. It's enough to just add it. But if you add rules in the files, you need to execute commit.

You can check user rules, as they're called with:

ufw status

You can also add verbose for some details:

ufw status verbose

Or numbered to know which rule to remove with delete. The syntax for this one is this:

delete RULE|NUM

answered Jun 13 '17 at 19:53

1 more question please. What do you mean by "add rules in the files"? – iLW Jun 13 '17 at 20:07
@iLW Take a look in `/etc/ufw/`. There are many rules there. What you add through the command line goes to `user` or `user6` for IPv6. There should be 6 more folders there and a cover of `sysctl.conf` form `/etc/sysctl` and `/etc/sysctl.d`. Find a suitable guide for your OS and version. There are plenty of them in the air. – Jun 13 '17 at 20:15
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sudo ufw commit results in Error: Invalid syntax – user_78361084 Jan 06 '18 at 05:16
@MarissaLevy This shouldn't happen. Start a new question with your details. – Jan 06 '18 at 12:26
delete RULE needs reload? It seems like it is the case for me.. is it normal? – yeahman Oct 02 '20 at 18:19
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you need to execute commit makes it sound like there's a command ufw commit Should be (?) ufw reload – beardedfool Nov 11 '21 at 20:29
actually there's also ufw app update PROFILE – beardedfool Nov 11 '21 at 20:46
There is no `commit` on ubuntu. – Eric Mar 21 '22 at 12:39

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