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From: Brook Miles <forger@bcgrizzly.com>
To: "N. N.M" <madrapour@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Quick ipfw question
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, N. N.M wrote:

Well..the first example command line in my man page reads:

  ipfw [-q] file

And so I rather expected it to work.
But from the other responses it appears this is only a temporary bug, so I
guess I'll just put up with it untill I get around to updating.

Thanks for the help all,
Brook

> The reason is simple: as the manual mentions, the argument "-q" is valid 
> only with the following commands:
> 
> - flush
> - zero no.
> - add ......
> 
> As you see, if you wanna use a file as ipfw's argument, you can't use 
> "-q". Alternatively, you can use -q in each line (or each ipfw commands) 
> in your file (/myfile). So the rules in this file are added "quietly". 
> 
> Nazila N.
> 
> 
> >Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:21:05 -0800 (PST)
> >From: Brook Miles <forger@bcgrizzly.com>
> >To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: Quick ipfw question
> >
> >
> >Is there some reason that
> >  ipfw /my/file
> >works but
> >  ipfw -q /my/file
> >doesn't?
> >
> >It gives "ipfw: error: Bad Arguments"
> >
> >FreeBSD/i386 3.0-RELEASE

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| Brook Miles <forger@bcgrizzly.com>
| A spec of cosmic dust... with attitude.
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