Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 05/04/2013 06:54 PM, Dash Four wrote:
>
>> Tom Eastep wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/04/2013 05:21 PM, Dash Four wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> That explains it then, though I think this behaviour is wrong -
>>>> shorewall should be capable of doing the same checks when a custom
>>>> config directory is specified and then make a decision on whether to
>>>> compile or not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The ability to specify a directory on the command line is intended to be
>>> used for temporary or test configurations. I disagree that there is any
>>> need to honor AUTOMAKE for such configurations and, in fact, I think it
>>> would be a detriment. If I have a special configuration that I use
>>> infrequently, honoring AUTOMAKE with that configuration would probably
>>> result in an attempt to restart using the config to be ignored.
>>>
>>>
>> I disagree. If I am running shorewall using custom configuration
>> directory (as was the case with me for the past 2+ years), then I need
>> to specify this and expect all shorewall.conf options to be honoured.
>>
>
> Then configure CONFDIR to point to where you actually put the
> configuration files.
>
> While you can have multiple configuration directories on a system, there
> is only one ${VARDIR}/${PRODUCT}/firewall. It is therefore not possible
> to provide sane behavior of AUTOMAKE for more than one configuration
> directory.
>
I've managed to get around the above problem and shorewall-init is now
running OK, save for a few glitches - since this is veering a bit off
topic, I'll start a new thread on the development forum and take it from
there.
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