Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:50:54AM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> > - The code should be hugely simpler to understand (any non-trivial > program written in shell spends half the code working around the > limitations of shell), which makes it much more practical for random > third parties like me to make minor changes. I've tried doing stuff > with the shell version before, and gave up because it was just too > much effort. It's a lot of effort for me too and the code is getting very fragile; that makes it hard to add anything without breaking something else. > > - perl -d > Yes. Shorewall 3.4.2 supports -d (debug) and -p (profile) options to the 'compile' command. > It also occurs to me that a new approach is going to be needed to > replace the old 'shorewall trace'. I've been thinking about that. I suspect that I'll have people package up their config directory and send it to me. I'll probably implement an /sbin/shorewall command to collect everything needed. -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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