Re: rc.firewall change comments request

From: Antoine Beaupre (LMC) (Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca)
Date: 07/24/01 

From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:34:08 -0400

Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> Antoine.Beaupre> For example, since alternate setups are sourced using
> Antoine.Beaupre> "ipfw" instead of the shell, you do not have access to
> Antoine.Beaupre> valuable variables and conditionals, being limited to
> Antoine.Beaupre> ipfw' syntax.
>
> Antoine.Beaupre> I use conditionals and variables to make the config file
> Antoine.Beaupre> more readable.
>
> Antoine.Beaupre> I think that having a flat ipfw source file is unpractical
> Antoine.Beaupre> and hard to maintain.
>
> Why not just set firewall_script in your /etc/rc.conf?
>
> firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" # Which script to run to set up the firewall

Ah-ah!

I knew there was something I was missing. Sorry for the lame complaining. :)

A. 

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