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On 05/19/2017 07:36 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while preparing the move to shorewall-5.1.x in Gentoo (yes, I know
> we are late, sorry for that!) I noticed that the new default 
> configuration file (/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf) will change
> from
> 
> LOGFORMAT="Shorewall:%s:%s:"
> 
> to
> 
> LOGFORMAT="%s %s "
> 
> 
> Looks like commit c561f8eb0387003ba5e853265e76b2d92e258949
> introduced the change.
> 
> I am wondering a little bit about that change:
> 
> 1) It will break existing syslogger filters
> 
> 2) It will break existing scripts parsing logs for firewall
> content
> 
> 3) Value doesn't represent default value (man page still says 'if
> not set, we will use "Shorewall:%s:%s:" format'
> 
> So did you really change the value by intention and want to keep it
> in default shorewall.conf?
> 

The change was intentional; it allows for longer zone names than the
previous setting. If an existing user performs a 'shorewall update'
and LOGFORMAT is not set in the existing .conf file, then the setting
will be updated to use "Shorewall:%s:%s", so that existing filters and
parsing scripts will continue to work.

What I can do to further help, is to update the manpages and Migration
Considerations to describe the regular expressions that Shorewall and
Shorewall6 use to locate Shorewall[6] log messages.

- -Tom
- -- 
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