On 10/30/2014 4:55 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> 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?

See the 4.6.5 Beta 3 announcement.

-Tom
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