Brian Camp wrote: > I understand > that shorewall check should not run the start file, but is it > necessary that it loads the modules file? It seems that something > like shorewall check should produce no side effects.
The 'check' command validates the configuration against the capabilities of iptables and the kernel. It can't do that without loading the necessary modules. Would you rather have 'shorewall start' fail after a successful 'check' when the required modules aren't available? I think not... -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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