On Thursday, October 30, 2014 09:53:23 Tom Eastep wrote: > On 10/29/2014 5:54 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > Howdy - > > > > We are using shorewall traffic accounting on our border router (home > > network). Works great, and gives us the info we need. Sometimes, for > > various reasons, our border router experiences a (possibly accidental) > > reboot, and all our accounting information is lost. > > > > Is there a way to do checkpoints (probably hourly would be enough) so if > > the box is rebooted, when it boots up, it will start its counters from > > where it last saved? > > There is currently no such feature. I'll see what I can do though.
Cool. Shorewall doesn't have a "long running" process right now, though right? I suppose adding an hourly cron job, and then code in shorewall to read a state file would be the way to go? j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
