fwlw_respond command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

fwlw_respond: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fwlw_respond: command not found

Solutions to fwlw_respond: command not found

How To Fix fwlw_respond: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fwlw_respond is provided by fwlogwatch package.

fwlogwatch is:

fwlogwatch produces ipchains, netfilter/iptables, ipfilter, Cisco IOS and Cisco PIX log summary reports in text and HTML form and has a lot of options to find and display relevant patterns in connection attempts. With the data found it can also generate customizable incident reports from a template and send them to abuse contacts at offending sites or CERT coordination centers. Finally, it can also run as daemon and report anomalies or start countermeasures.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install fwlogwatch

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install fwlogwatch.

sudo apt -y install fwlogwatch

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install fwlogwatch

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix fwlw_respond command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.