Shorewall users - Nov 2003 - Getting the status of the firewall from within C/C++ program

Hi,

I''m writing a central logging system with several clients, which should
be
able to detect wether the firewall is running, has stopped, could not be 
started due to configuration errors, ...
Preferably, I''d use a LSB compliant init script, but the shorewall init
script
does not comply. For example, ''service shorewall status should return 3
when
executed on a moment shorewall has been stopped, now the script returns 
allways 0.
Does anyone have such a script?
Or if it does not exist, what are the other possibilities to check wether 
shorewall is running or not?

Thanks in advance,
Erwin Van de Velde
Student of Antwerp University,
Belgium

PS: Could you please forward your replies to erwin.vandevelde(at)ua.ac.be too? 
I''m not subscribed on this list...

On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 02:30, Erwin Van de Velde wrote:
> Does anyone have such a script?
Patches cheerfully accepted.
> Or if it does not exist, what are the other possibilities to check wether 
> shorewall is running or not?
If ''iptables -L shorewall -n'' returns a status of 0, then
Shorewall is
running; otherwise, it is in some other state.

-Tom 
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