On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:38:39AM -0500, woger151 wrote: > I can't find any documentation on the COMMIT keyword, nor is it mentioned > in the Linux firewalls book I have. > > What is it? Is it necessary to use in firewall scripts? > > TIA > > From the Iptables Tutorial, section iptables-save : "The COMMIT keyword tells us that at this point we should commit all rules currently in the pipeline to kernel" You do not need to use it in your script. This one is only used to "commit" rules from the output of the iptables-save command, as you would do with a SQL script. -- Franck Joncourt http://www.debian.org http://smhteam.info/wiki/ GPG server : pgpkeys.mit.edu Fingerprint : C10E D1D0 EF70 0A2A CACF 9A3C C490 534E 75C0 89FE
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