Shorewall users - Feb 2009 - Determining if Shorewall is active

I want to check (using Nagios) whether Shorewall is active on remote
systems (I appreciate that it isn''t a daemon). Some quick
experimentation
shows that the exit status of "shorewall status" is 0 when active and
3
when cleared or stopped. Can those exit statuses be relied upon? I
couldn''t see any documentation regarding this on the Shorewall website.

Thanks,
Keith

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Keith Edmunds wrote:
> I want to check (using Nagios) whether Shorewall is active on remote
> systems (I appreciate that it isn''t a daemon). Some quick
experimentation
> shows that the exit status of "shorewall status" is 0 when active
and 3
> when cleared or stopped. Can those exit statuses be relied upon? 
Yes.

-Tom
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