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  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>shorewall-vardir</refentrytitle>

    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>vardir</refname>

    <refpurpose>Shorewall file</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>/etc/shorewall/vardir</command>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

    <para>This file does not exist by default. You may create the file if you
    want to change the directory used by Shorewall to store state information,
    including compiled firewall scripts. By default, the directory used is
    <filename>/var/lib/shorewall/</filename>.</para>

    <para>The file contains a single variable assignment:</para>

    <para><option>VARDIR=</option><replaceable>directory</replaceable></para>

    <para>where <replaceable>directory</replaceable> is the name of a
    directory. If you add this file, you should copy the files from
    <filename>/var/lib/shorewall</filename> to the new directory before
    performing a <command>shorewall restart</command>.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Example</title>

    <para>VARDIR=/root/shorewall</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>FILES</title>

    <para>/etc/shorewall/vardir</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See ALSO</title>

    <para>shorewall(8), shorewall-accounting(5), shorewall-actions(5),
    shorewall-blacklist(5), shorewall-hosts(5), shorewall_interfaces(5), shorewall-ipsets(5),
    shorewall-maclist(5), shorewall-masq(5), shorewall-nat(5),
    shorewall-netmap(5), shorewall-params(5), shorewall-policy(5),
    shorewall-providers(5), shorewall-proxyarp(5), shorewall-rtrules(5),
    shorewall-routestopped(5), shorewall-rules(5), shorewall.conf(5), shorewall-secmarks(5),
    shorewall-tcclasses(5), shorewall-tcdevices(5), shorewall-tcrules(5),
    shorewall-tos(5), shorewall-tunnels(5), shorewall-zones(5)</para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>
