David Sparks wrote: > Hi, > > Shorewall is a great project -- I've used it for a while now and it > really does a great job. Thanks to all the people who put their work > into it. > > I've stumbled across a bug while preparing to make a change to my rules > file. It seems that the backslash character "\" continues comment > lines. I don't think this is desirable behavior as it causes very > unexpected behavior when you comment out a line that ends in "\". > > > Backstory: While preparing to make a change to the rules file, new rules > were added in a commented state. shorewall restart was run at some > point which caused strange brokeness in the firewall. diffs against the > last know working config which was untouched for months showed only the > addition of the commented rules which led to a very puzzled debugging > session. > > The new commented rule was added like this, which seems to have turned > the entire rule into a comment: > > #DNAT net:x.x.x.x,y.y.y.y \ > DNAT net:x.x.x.x \ > internal:10.0.0.123 tcp 3306 - z.z.z.z >
This is a function of the shell -- Shorewall has no control over it. -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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