Linux Advocate wrote: > Doesn´t the functionality provided by params and > include overlap?
Yes -- marginally. > > Once things have been defined in params , they can be > used in other config files right? therefore include is > redundant ? i mean all the stuff indicated by > http://www1.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#INCLUDE > can be done in the normal params file and be used > globally right? No. The params file provides a very weak analog of C macros; the INCLUDE directive is similar to C's #include. Each shell variable (params) expands to something that must fit on a single line. INCLUDE files may have many lines in them. > Sorry, i m just trying to increase my understanding of > shorewall. Nothing here is Shorewall-specific. These are basic feature of language processing systems that have been around for the last 40 -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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