Re: [Shorewall-users] Relocating shorewall.conf

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

On 9/16/10 4:39 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>>>   Is it possible to put shorewall.conf elsewhere than
>>> in /etc/shorewall/ ?  I haven't seen a shorewall parameter to specify an
>>> alternative file nor did I notice any environment variable for that
>>> purpose.
>>>     
>>
>> No -- Any system that runs Shorewall must have
>> /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.
>>   
> Not true! I do exactly what the OP suggested - my shorewall.conf is in a 
> completely different directory - the trick is to modify 
> /etc/init.d/shorewall and start with "shorewall start $options 
> $config_directory" where $config_directory is the directory where 
> shorewall.conf resides. I also redirected the path within shorewall.conf 
> to look elsewhere for the rest of the Shorewall files, so yes - it is 
> possible.

Try deleting /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and see what happens.

-Tom
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