On 8/13/19 8:37 AM, Naveen Neelakanta wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> I was trying to find out the different in the commands and the
> consequence  of  reload vs restart .
> Is there a command or log that can help me understand what goes on when
> i reload vs restart . 
> 
> Trying to understand the commands that will be executed and what will
> able to the iptables rule order in case of reload .
> 
> This will help me a lot , since i was able to solve an issue with
> connection by replacing clear and restart with just reload. ( i was
> monitoring raw table did not clear , however nat table cleared ) 
> 
> So please provide more insight on this .
> 

The best way to see what the script is doing is to obtain a shell trace.

/bin/sh -x /var/lib/shorewall/firewall <cmd> > <trace file> 2&>1

This assumes that /bin/sh is $SHOREWALL_SHELL (from shorewall.conf) and
that /var/lib/shorewall is where the Shorewall persistent data is stored.

-Tom
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