diff --git a/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.suse b/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.suse
index f1ec6ca22..6f2e44de7 100644
--- a/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.suse
+++ b/Shorewall-core/shorewallrc.suse
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SBINDIR=/sbin                                         #Directory where system ad
 MANDIR=${SHAREDIR}/man/                               #Directory where manpages are installed.
 INITDIR=/etc/init.d                                   #Directory where SysV init scripts are installed.
 INITFILE=$PRODUCT                                     #Name of the product's SysV init script
-INITSOURCE=init.suse.sh                               #Name of the distributed file to be installed as the SysV init script
+INITSOURCE=init.sh                                    #Name of the distributed file to be installed as the SysV init script
 ANNOTATED=                                            #If non-zero, annotated configuration files are installed
 SYSTEMD=                                              #Directory where .service files are installed (systems running systemd only)
 SYSCONFFILE=                                          #Name of the distributed file to be installed in $SYSCONFDIR
diff --git a/Shorewall-init/init.suse.sh b/Shorewall-init/init.suse.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 0afa523f2..000000000
--- a/Shorewall-init/init.suse.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-#     The Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) Packet Filtering Firewall - V4.5
-#
-#     This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
-#
-#     (c) 2010,2012 - Tom Eastep (teastep@shorewall.net)
-#
-#       On most distributions, this file should be called /etc/init.d/shorewall.
-#
-#       Complete documentation is available at http://shorewall.net
-#
-#       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#       it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License
-#       as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-#       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#       but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#       GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#       along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#       Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-#
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides: shorewall-init
-# Required-Start: $local_fs
-# Required-Stop:  $local_fs
-# Default-Start:  2 3 5
-# Default-Stop:   0 1 6
-# Short-Description: Initialize the firewall at boot time
-# Description:       Place the firewall in a safe state at boot time
-#                    prior to bringing up the network.  
-### END INIT INFO
-
-if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]
-then
-  echo "You must be root to start, stop or restart \"Shorewall \"."
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-# check if shorewall-init is configured or not
-if [ -f "/etc/sysconfig/shorewall-init" ]
-then
-	. /etc/sysconfig/shorewall-init
-	if [ -z "$PRODUCTS" ]
-	then
-		exit 0
-	fi
-else
-	exit 0
-fi
-
-#
-# The installer may alter this
-#
-. /usr/share/shorewall/shorewallrc
-
-# Initialize the firewall
-shorewall_start () {
-  local PRODUCT
-  local VARDIR
-
-  echo -n "Initializing \"Shorewall-based firewalls\": "
-  for PRODUCT in $PRODUCTS; do
-      if [ -x ${VARDIR}/firewall ]; then
-	  if ! ${SBIN}/$PRODUCT status > /dev/null 2>&1; then
-	      ${VARDIR}/firewall stop || echo_notdone
-	  fi
-      fi
-  done
-
-  if [ -n "$SAVE_IPSETS" -a -f "$SAVE_IPSETS" ]; then
-      ipset -R < "$SAVE_IPSETS"
-  fi
-
-  return 0
-}
-
-# Clear the firewall
-shorewall_stop () {
-  local PRODUCT
-  local VARDIR
-
-  echo -n "Clearing \"Shorewall-based firewalls\": "
-  for PRODUCT in $PRODUCTS; do
-      if [ -x ${VARDIR}/firewall ]; then
-	  ${VARDIR}/firewall clear || exit 1
-      fi
-  done
-
-  if [ -n "$SAVE_IPSETS" ]; then
-      mkdir -p $(dirname "$SAVE_IPSETS")
-      if ipset -S > "${SAVE_IPSETS}.tmp"; then
-	  grep -qE -- '^(-N|create )' "${SAVE_IPSETS}.tmp" && mv -f "${SAVE_IPSETS}.tmp" "$SAVE_IPSETS"
-      fi
-  fi
-
-  return 0
-}
-
-case "$1" in
-  start)
-     shorewall_start
-     ;;
-  stop)
-     shorewall_stop
-     ;;
-  *)
-     echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/shorewall-init {start|stop}"
-     exit 1
-esac
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/Shorewall-lite/init.suse.sh b/Shorewall-lite/init.suse.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index ea7df61c7..000000000
--- a/Shorewall-lite/init.suse.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-#     The Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) Packet Filtering Firewall - V4.5
-#
-#     This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
-#
-#     (c) 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2012 - Tom Eastep (teastep@shorewall.net)
-#
-#	On most distributions, this file should be called /etc/init.d/shorewall.
-#
-#	Complete documentation is available at http://shorewall.net
-#
-#	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#	it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License
-#	as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-#	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#	GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#	Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-#	If an error occurs while starting or restarting the firewall, the
-#	firewall is automatically stopped.
-#
-#	Commands are:
-#
-#	   shorewall start			  Starts the firewall
-#	   shorewall restart			  Restarts the firewall
-#	   shorewall reload			  Reload the firewall
-#						  (same as restart)
-#	   shorewall stop			  Stops the firewall
-#	   shorewall status			  Displays firewall status
-#
-
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:	  shorewall-lite
-# Required-Start: $network $remote_fs
-# Required-Stop:  
-# Default-Start:  2 3 5
-# Default-Stop:	  0 1 6
-# Description:	  starts and stops the shorewall firewall
-# Short-Description: Packet filtering firewall
-### END INIT INFO
-
-################################################################################
-# Give Usage Information						       #
-################################################################################
-usage() {
-    echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|reload|restart|status"
-    exit 1
-}
-
-################################################################################
-# Get startup options (override default)
-################################################################################
-OPTIONS=
-
-#
-# The installer may alter this
-#
-. /usr/share/shorewall/shorewallrc
-
-if [ -f ${SYSCONFDIR}/shorewall-lite ]; then
-    . ${SYSCONFDIR}/shorewall-lite
-fi
-
-SHOREWALL_INIT_SCRIPT=1
-
-################################################################################
-# E X E C U T I O N    B E G I N S   H E R E				       #
-################################################################################
-command="$1"
-
-case "$command" in
-    start)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall-lite $OPTIONS start $STARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    restart|reload)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall-lite $OPTIONS restart $RESTARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    status|stop)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall-lite $OPTIONS $command $@
-	;;
-    *)
-	usage
-	;;
-esac
diff --git a/Shorewall-lite/install.sh b/Shorewall-lite/install.sh
index 3c932098a..f751dbcb8 100755
--- a/Shorewall-lite/install.sh
+++ b/Shorewall-lite/install.sh
@@ -253,10 +253,7 @@ case "$HOST" in
     archlinux)
 	echo "Installing ArchLinux-specific configuration..."
 	;;
-    suse)
-	echo "Installing Suse-specific configuration..."
-	;;
-    linux)
+    linux|suse)
 	;;
     *)
 	echo "ERROR: Unknown HOST \"$HOST\"" >&2
diff --git a/Shorewall/init.suse.sh b/Shorewall/init.suse.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index a7157db53..000000000
--- a/Shorewall/init.suse.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-#     The Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) Packet Filtering Firewall - V4.2
-#
-#     This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
-#
-#     (c) 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 - Tom Eastep (teastep@shorewall.net)
-#
-#	On most distributions, this file should be called /etc/init.d/shorewall.
-#
-#	Complete documentation is available at http://shorewall.net
-#
-#	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#	it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License
-#	as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-#	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#	GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#	Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-#	If an error occurs while starting or restarting the firewall, the
-#	firewall is automatically stopped.
-#
-#	Commands are:
-#
-#	   shorewall start			  Starts the firewall
-#	   shorewall restart			  Restarts the firewall
-#	   shorewall reload			  Reload the firewall
-#						  (same as restart)
-#	   shorewall stop			  Stops the firewall
-#	   shorewall status			  Displays firewall status
-#
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:          shorewall
-# Required-Start:    $network $remote_fs
-# Required-Stop:     $network $remote_fs
-# Default-Start:     2 3 5
-# Default-Stop:      0 6
-# Short-Description: Configure the firewall at boot time
-# Description:       Configure the firewall according to the rules specified in
-#                    /etc/shorewall
-### END INIT INFO
-
-################################################################################
-# Give Usage Information						       #
-################################################################################
-usage() {
-    echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|reload|restart|status" >&2
-    exit 1
-}
-
-################################################################################
-# Get startup options (override default)
-################################################################################
-OPTIONS="-v0"
-
-#
-# The installer may alter this
-#
-. /usr/share/shorewall/shorewallrc
-
-if [ -f ${SYSCONFDIR}/shorewall ]; then
-    . ${SYSCONFDIR}/shorewall
-fi
-
-export SHOREWALL_INIT_SCRIPT=1
-
-################################################################################
-# E X E C U T I O N    B E G I N S   H E R E				       #
-################################################################################
-command="$1"
-shift
-
-case "$command" in
-    start)
-	exec $SBINDIR/shorewall $OPTIONS start $STARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    restart|reload)
-	exec $SBINDIR/shorewall $OPTIONS restart $RESTARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    status|stop)
-	exec $SBINDIR/shorewall $OPTIONS $command
-	;;
-    *)
-	usage
-	;;
-esac
diff --git a/Shorewall6-lite/init.suse.sh b/Shorewall6-lite/init.suse.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f9764f6d1..000000000
--- a/Shorewall6-lite/init.suse.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-#     The Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) Packet Filtering Firewall - V4.5
-#
-#     This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
-#
-#     (c) 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2012 - Tom Eastep (teastep@shorewall.net)
-#
-#	On most distributions, this file should be called /etc/init.d/shorewall.
-#
-#	Complete documentation is available at http://shorewall.net
-#
-#	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#	it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License
-#	as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-#	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#	GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#	Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-#	If an error occurs while starting or restarting the firewall, the
-#	firewall is automatically stopped.
-#
-#	Commands are:
-#
-#	   shorewall6-lite start			  Starts the firewall
-#	   shorewall6-lite restart			  Restarts the firewall
-#	   shorewall6-lite reload			  Reload the firewall
-#						          (same as restart)
-#	   shorewall6-lite stop 			  Stops the firewall
-#	   shorewall6-lite status			  Displays firewall status
-#
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:	  shorewall6-lite
-# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog $network
-# Required-Stop:  $network $remote_fs
-# Default-Start:  2 3 5
-# Default-Stop:	  0 1 6
-# Description:	  starts and stops the shorewall firewall
-# Short-Description: Packet filtering firewall
-### END INIT INFO
-
-################################################################################
-# Give Usage Information						       #
-################################################################################
-usage() {
-    echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|reload|restart|status"
-    exit 1
-}
-
-################################################################################
-# Get startup options (override default)
-################################################################################
-OPTIONS=
-
-#
-# The installer may alter this
-#
-. /usr/share/shorewall/shorewallrc
-
-export SHOREWALL_INIT_SCRIPT=1
-
-################################################################################
-# E X E C U T I O N    B E G I N S   H E R E				       #
-################################################################################
-command="$1"
-
-case "$command" in
-    start)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall6-lite $OPTIONS start $STARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    restart|reload)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall6-lite $OPTIONS restart $RESTARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    status|stop)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall6-lite $OPTIONS $command $@
-	;;
-    *)
-	usage
-	;;
-esac
diff --git a/Shorewall6/init.suse.sh b/Shorewall6/init.suse.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 358d9345f..000000000
--- a/Shorewall6/init.suse.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-#     The Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall6) Packet Filtering Firewall - V4.5
-#
-#     This program is under GPL [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt]
-#
-#     (c) 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2012 - Tom Eastep (teastep@shorewall.net)
-#
-#	On most distributions, this file should be called /etc/init.d/shorewall.
-#
-#	Complete documentation is available at http://shorewall.net
-#
-#	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#	it under the terms of Version 2 of the GNU General Public License
-#	as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-#	This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#	but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#	MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#	GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#	You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#	along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-#	Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-#
-#	If an error occurs while starting or restarting the firewall, the
-#	firewall is automatically stopped.
-#
-#	Commands are:
-#
-#	   shorewall6 start			  Starts the firewall
-#	   shorewall6 restart			  Restarts the firewall
-#	   shorewall6 reload			  Reload the firewall
-#						  (same as restart)
-#	   shorewall6 stop			  Stops the firewall
-#	   shorewall6 status			  Displays firewall status
-#
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:	  shorewall6
-# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $syslog
-# Should-Start: VMware $time $named
-# Should-Stop:  $null
-# Required-Stop: $null
-# Default-Start:  2 3 5
-# Default-Stop:	  0 1 6
-# Description:	  starts and stops the shorewall6 firewall
-# Short-Description: Packet filtering firewall
-### END INIT INFO
-
-################################################################################
-# Give Usage Information						       #
-################################################################################
-usage() {
-    echo "Usage: $0 start|stop|reload|restart|status"
-    exit 1
-}
-
-################################################################################
-# Get startup options (override default)
-################################################################################
-OPTIONS="-v0"
-
-#
-# The installer may alter this
-#
-. /usr/share/shorewall/shorewallrc
-
-export SHOREWALL_INIT_SCRIPT=1
-
-################################################################################
-# E X E C U T I O N    B E G I N S   H E R E				       #
-################################################################################
-command="$1"
-
-case "$command" in
-    start)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall6 $OPTIONS start $STARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    restart|reload)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall6 $OPTIONS restart $RESTARTOPTIONS
-	;;
-    status|stop)
-	exec ${SBINDIR}/shorewall6 $OPTIONS $command $@
-	;;
-    *)
-	usage
-	;;
-esac