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From: Jan Vales <jan@jvales.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989@gmail.com>,
	netfilter mailing list <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Native support of counting rules?
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:27:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50E5BF89.1010505@jvales.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1301031704440.32551@nerf07.vanv.qr>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-03 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-02 13:48 Native support of counting rules? Aaron Lewis
2013-01-02 13:58 ` Eliezer Croitoru
2013-01-03 14:13   ` [SOLVED] " Aaron Lewis
2013-01-03 14:56     ` Jan Vales
2013-01-03 16:05       ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-01-03 17:27         ` Jan Vales [this message]
2013-01-04  5:45           ` Born Without
2013-01-04  5:02     ` Eliezer Croitoru
2013-01-04  5:39       ` Born Without
2013-01-04  5:57         ` Eliezer Croitoru
2013-01-02 15:11 ` Aaron Lewis

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