Hi Tom,
I am using shorewall to manage the firewalls on most of my VMs. 
I use shorewall lite on my  VM's.

Today I did a long overdue configuration update on the configuration on
the different VMs.

Request 1:
I used symlinks for a lot of the configuration files that are common on
all VMs. After a "shorewall update ." on the configuration a lot of the
files were updated and replaced by the updated files in the working
directory. Would it be possible to find a way whereby the backup is
saved as a new file and the file pointed at  by the symlink is modified
in place? It might even be better to follow the symlink and make the
modifications in the directory it points to (save the .bak there)?

Request 2:
shorewall remote-reload and friends require the remote system name to
be specified. Would it be possible to check a parameter  (for example
from params) and make the system name optional? This will avoid the
risk of reloading the wrong system if the admin is absent minded :-)

Kind regards,Louis


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