Thank you for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu even better. 'status' shows the status of the running firewall, with regard to ufw managed rules.
If the firewall is disabled, you see:
$ sudo ufw status
Firewall not loaded
Also, when performing 'ufw enable', you see:
Firewall started and enabled on system startup
meaning the firewall is 'both' started as of now, and enabled on system startup. I think the output is clear, but think the man page could use some fine-tuning. There are a couple of other messages that could be more clear as well.
Thank you for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu even better. 'status' shows the status of the running firewall, with regard to ufw managed rules.
If the firewall is disabled, you see:
$ sudo ufw status
Firewall not loaded
Also, when performing 'ufw enable', you see:
Firewall started and enabled on system startup
meaning the firewall is 'both' started as of now, and enabled on system startup. I think the output is clear, but think the man page could use some fine-tuning. There are a couple of other messages that could be more clear as well.