On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 09:05 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote: > On 10/05/2016 04:16 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote: > > > > 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 configuration a lot of the files were updated and replaced by the 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)? > > > > If, rather than using symlinks, you place the commmon files in a > separate directory and include that directory on the CONFIG_PATH, > then > 'update' can find them and update them in their own directory.
Thanks Tom, this should work for me too. This is even simpler than using symlinks. I will give this a try when I have some time Kind regards, Louis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Shorewall-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-devel
