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Date:      Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:44:48 -0500
From:      Timothy Luoma <lists@tntluoma.com>
To:        Eric F Crist <ecrist@secure-computing.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...
Message-ID:  <8B357427-5DB7-11D9-89A5-000D93AD26C8@tntluoma.com>
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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.

What specifically are you trying to pull out of /etc/rc.conf?

TjL

ps - that said, why aren't you setting firewall configuration once and 
leaving it alone?



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