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Tom Eastep wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> It's an unfortunate
>> concidence that shorewall has a feature that duplicates part of the
>> behaviour of the init script.
> 
> In hindsight, it was an unfortunate choice on my part. Using
> /etc/default/shorewall or /etc/sysconfig/shorewall to control startup at
> boot time would have been a better approach.

There were other reasons behind that change too. By forcing everybody to
change shorewall.conf file from it's defaults to get it running it's
guaranteed that package upgrades won't replace shorewall.conf which is
vital part of shorewall version to version update requirements.

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Tuomo Soini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux and network services
+358 40 5240030
Foobar Oy <http://foobar.fi/>
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