Re: [PATCH] Drop iptables-save comments and chain counters from iptables inventory.

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On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 23:35 +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:59:21AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > iptables-save has -c option and it appears it is defaulting to on your
> > system?
> > 
> > take a look at the man page:
> >    -c, --counters
> >      include  the  current  values of all packet and byte counters in
> >      the output
> 
> "iptables-save -c" gives me per rule counters as in:
> 
> 	[21:1260] -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT 
> 
> this is not defaulting to on. The problem I have is that iptables-save
> (without -c) gives me the chain counters:
> 
> 	:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> 	:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
> 	:OUTPUT ACCEPT [7568359:2744381371]
> 	:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
> 
> and OUTPUT ACCEPT is always changing. Also it gives the
> timestamps in commented out lines, which also is noise for
> func-inventory. So every host is daily adding something like
> the following:
> 
> 	-# Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Fri Jun  3 14:57:06 2011
> 	+# Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Fri Jun  3 15:08:54 2011
> 	 *filter
> 	 :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
> 	 :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
> 	-:OUTPUT ACCEPT [26377:4434694]
> 	+:OUTPUT ACCEPT [29222:4961577]
> 	 -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT 
> 	 -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT 
> 	 -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT 
> 	@@ -22,4 +22,4 @@
> 	 -A FORWARD -m limit --limit 3/min -j LOG --log-prefix "FIREWALL: " --log-level 6 
> 	 -A FORWARD -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited 
> 	 COMMIT
> 	-# Completed on Fri Jun  3 14:57:06 2011
> 	+# Completed on Fri Jun  3 15:08:54 2011
> 
> 
> > b/c it seems to be behaving on mine.
> 
> You're not seeing these timestamps or counters ?

I see the timestamps - I have no problem with that part of your patch.

I don't see the counters.

-sv


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