Tom Eastep wrote:
> 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.

Where there's a will, there's a way:

gateway:/etc/shorewall.keep # shorewall show chain foo
Shorewall 3.4.4 Chain foo at gateway - Thu Jun 28 10:58:51 PDT 2007

Counters reset Wed Jun 27 13:28:16 PDT 2007

iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
gateway:/etc/shorewall.keep # shorewall show foo
usage shorewall show [ -x ] [ -m ] [-f] [ -t {filter|mangle|nat} ] [ chain...
gateway:/etc/shorewall.keep #

-Tom
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