Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:53:21AM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>>> No errors are reported on during the start up of
>>> shorewall. Running "shorewall show messages" gives the
>>> error:
>>>
>>> iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
>> Shorewall has no 'show messages' command. Did you possibly want 'shorewall
>> show log'?
> 
> Perhaps this syntax wants rethinking - arguments of the form
> [foo|bar|baz|<anything else>] are usually trouble, as you can't
> give a particularly good error message when the user makes a mistake
> like this.

Making a syntax change at this point would mean that many pieces of advise
recorded in the list archives would no longer work.

So I'm not in favor of such a change at this late date.

-Tom
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