my lame attempt at a shell script...

[Colin J. Raven]

On Jan 3 at 13:44, Timothy Luoma launched this into the bitstream:

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> On Jan 3, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Eric F Crist wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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. :-)