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From: Jan Vales <jan@jvales.net>
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Native support of counting rules?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:27:37 +0100
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On 03/01/13 17:05, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2013-01-03 15:56, Jan Vales wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> why dont you use ...
>> iptables-save | grep "\-A" | wc -l
> 
> grep ^-A
> 
> But the foremost question is: how is the rule count alone going to be 
> useful?
> 

I dont think its useful at all - I just like stats and wanted to help ;)

Especially with OP's requirement to allow non-root users to view this count.
Therefore know that/when you changed something.

lg
~Jan