Re: safely apply new rulesets: iptables-apply

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В Чтв, 17/04/2008 в 10:05 +0200, martin f krafft пишет:
> also sprach Martijn Lievaart <m@xxxxxxx> [2008.04.16.2356 +0200]:
> >> echo "Applying new rules...";
> >> iptables-restore <new.txt;
> >> if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
> >> 	echo "Dude, that failed horribly. (Old rules still intact.)";
> >> 	exit 1;
> >> fi
> >
> > Are you sure? I think it may have committed some tables already and  
> > errored on another.
> 
> No, I am not sure. But wouldn't that be a bug? iptables-restore
> gives the impression to be transaction-oriented. It should be
> all-or-nothing, I think.

By default iptables-save generates file which COMMITs after each table.
Is it possible to COMMIT once for all tables at the end? If this is
possible - this will be the solution (all or nothing).

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Покотиленко Костик <casper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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