Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 10:31:00 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: my lame attempt at a shell script... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.61.9.0501041028340.407@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <8B357427-5DB7-11D9-89A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com> References: <06DDB71C-5DB4-11D9-B56F-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> <8B357427-5DB7-11D9-89A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>
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On Jan 3 at 13:44, Timothy Luoma launched this into the bitstream: > > On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Eric F Crist wrote: > >> I'm trying to create a shell script for firewalling. What I'm hoping to do >> is create a generic script that looks for variables in /etc/rc.conf. I've >> tried looking at other scripts that use variables placed there, but don't >> understand how to pull the information from the file. > > Ah, now I may be a FreeBSD newbie, but I've been doing shell scripts for a > long time. > Take note, he is *really* not exaggerating!! > What specifically are you trying to pull out of /etc/rc.conf? > > > ps - that said, why aren't you setting firewall configuration once and > leaving it alone? Yeah, I wondered about that too, unless there's something particular to that local configuration it sort of seems like reinventing the wheel. BTW, welcome to FreeBSD Tim! You have been assimilated etc. :-)
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