[Shorewall-users] Verify option in Shorewall

Jeff Falgout
2002-01-11T18:19:17Z

That''ll be great!=20

Thanks for your quick response. . .

Jeff

>>> Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net> 01/11/02 11:11AM
>>>
On Friday 11 January 2002 10:03 am, Jeff Falgout wrote:

>
> Is there an option in shorewall to verify the rules, policy, config, etc
> files are syntactically correct before actually restarting shorewall?

No.
> If
> not, would there be much work involved to add, say, "shorewall
verify"
> which does a dry run?

Yes -- it''s quite a bit of work because most startup errors are caught
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iptables or ip or one of the other utilities. The GUI that I''m working
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WILL verify the correctness of a configuration though.

-Tom
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