Shorewall users - Sep 2004 - Saving Shorewall Settings

I usually keep a copy of the entire /etc/shorewall directory.
It never failed me.

Panos



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stewart Outram" <stewart@soutram.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "Shorewall User List" <shorewall-users@lists.shorewall.net>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 6:58 AM
Subject: [Shorewall-users] Saving Shorewall Settings

> Hi
>
> I have recently being doing a lot of rebuilds recently.
>
> Whats the best approach to saving a copy of the current firewall settings?
>
> I think I am right in my understanding that "Shorewall Save"
saves the
> current settings of Iptables so that the state of Iptables can be 
> reinstated quickly if required, but doesn''t save any of the
configuration
> files like Rules, Policy etc.
>
> If my understanding above is correct, is the only thing required to be 
> save prior to a rebuild and re installation the /etc/shorewall  folder?
>
> ( Assuming of course that all changes like Allow.xxxxx have been made in 
> that folder only ).
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Stewart
>
>
> -- 
> Stewart Outram
> UK
>
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Hi

I have recently being doing a lot of rebuilds recently.

Whats the best approach to saving a copy of the current firewall settings?

I think I am right in my understanding that "Shorewall Save" saves the
current settings of Iptables so that the state of Iptables can be 
reinstated quickly if required, but doesn''t save any of the 
configuration files like Rules, Policy etc.

If my understanding above is correct, is the only thing required to be 
save prior to a rebuild and re installation the /etc/shorewall  folder?

( Assuming of course that all changes like Allow.xxxxx have been made in 
that folder only ).


Thanks


Stewart


-- 
Stewart Outram
UK