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Signed-off-by: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
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<year>2009</year>
<year>2012</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
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<title>The Shorewall Perl Modules</title>
<para>In Shorewall 4.4 and later, Shorewall's Perl modules are installed
in /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall and the names of the packages are of the
form Shorewall::<firstterm>name</firstterm>. So by using this
by default in /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall and the names of the packages
are of the form Shorewall::<firstterm>name</firstterm>. So by using this
directive<programlisting>use lib '/usr/share/shorewall';</programlisting></para>
<para>You can then load the modules via normal Perl use statements.</para>
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<para>Example (compiles the configuration in the current directory
generating a script named 'firewall' and using VERBOSITY
2).<programlisting><emphasis role="bold">/usr/share/shorewall/compiler.pl -v 2 -d . firewall</emphasis></programlisting><note>
<para>The Perl-based compiler does not process
<filename>/etc/shorewall/params</filename>. To include definitions
in that file, you would need to do something like the
<para>Prior to Shorewall 4.4.19, the Perl-based compiler did not
process <filename>/etc/shorewall/params</filename>. To include
definitions in that file, you would need to do something like the
following:<programlisting><command>. /usr/share/shorewall/lib.base # In case /etc/shorewall/params does INCLUDE
set -a # Export all variables set in /etc/shorewall/params
. /etc/shorewall/params
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<term>preview</term>
<listitem>
<para>Added in Shorewall 4.4.6.l Preview the ruleset on standard
output.</para>
<para>0 or 1. Added in Shorewall 4.4.6. A value of 1 causes the
generated ruleset to be printed to standard output.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>confess</term>
<listitem>
<para>0 or 1. Added in Shorewall 4.4.20. A value of 1 causes error
and warning messages to include a Perl stack trace. Useful for
finding the place in the code where the message is
generated.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>update</term>
<listitem>
<para>0 or 1. Added in Shorewall 4.4.21. A value of 1 causes the
.conf file to be updated (<command>shorewall update</command>
command).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>config_path</term>
<listitem>
<para>List of pathnames separated by ':' or ''. Added in Shorewall
4.4.26. The list of directories where the compiler is to search
for input files.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Those parameters that are supplied must have defined values.
Defaults are: <simplelist>
<member>script '' ('check' command)</member>
<member>script: '' ('check' command)</member>
<member>directory ''</member>
<member>directory: ''</member>
<member>verbosity 1</member>
<member>verbosity: 1</member>
<member>timestamp 0</member>
<member>timestamp: 0</member>
<member>debug 0</member>
<member>debug: 0</member>
<member>export 0</member>
<member>export: 0</member>
<member>chains ''</member>
<member>chains: ''</member>
<member>log ''</member>
<member>log: ''</member>
<member>log_verbosity -1</member>
<member>log_verbosity: -1</member>
<member>family 4</member>
<member>family: 4</member>
<member>preview: 0</member>
<member>confess: 0</member>
<member>update: 0</member>
<member>config_path: Contents of
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall/configpath</filename> or
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall6/configpath</filename> depending on the
setting of <emphasis role="bold">family</emphasis>. </member>
</simplelist></para>
<para>Example: <programlisting>use lib '/usr/share/shorewall/';