RE: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall 1.3.12 Released

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

--On Saturday, December 28, 2002 01:54:18 PM +0100 guenther 
<gue...@ru...> wrote:


> But what about those files exactly? There are at least the last lines,
> telling me, _not_ to delete them. Are they really used? Or can I just
> safely delete them?
>

The reason for those lines is that the bash 'read' command will ignore the 
last line of a file if the line isn't terminated with a 'newline' 
(linefeed) character. By having a comment line at the end of the file, I'm 
ensuring that the last line containing configuration information is so 
terminated. You are free to remove it -- just don't send any problem 
reports claiming that Shorewall is ignoring a line in that config file....

FWIW, I leave those lines in my files because I've been bitten by that 
problem myself.

-Tom
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