From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 27 16: 1:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFDEF37B416 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 79496 invoked by uid 100); 28 Jan 2002 00:01:17 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15444.38092.267015.297844@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:01:16 -0600 To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewall config non-intuitiveness In-Reply-To: <20020127220935.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> References: <20020127014848.F23259@blossom.cjclark.org> <3.0.5.32.20020127075816.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com> <20020127.102748.70374201.imp@village.org> <200201271757.g0RHvTF12944@midway.uchicago.edu> <20020127220935.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-RC-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerhard Sittig types: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:57 -0600, David Syphers wrote: > > [ ... surprise ... ] As others have pointed out this behavior is > > documented, but we must remember that a variable name itself is the most > > important and immediate documentation. And having a firewall load when > > firewall_enable is NO is complete nonsense. > So maybe the variables should be named a little longer to fully > describe their effect? Like > firewall_ruleset_script_run_enable_when_set_to_yes? If you're going to do it, do it right: firewall_load_ipfw_if_needed_then_run_ruleset_script_when_set_to_yes http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message