SHOREWALL-LITE(8)

💖 SHOREWALL-LITE(8) 💖

Administrative Commands ✨ welcome to the shorewall-lite glow-up bestie ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

shorewall-lite — the admin tool for Shoreline Firewall Lite (aka Shorewall-lte, yes that's how it's spelled, no I will not be fixing it 💅)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

shorewall-lite [trace|debug] [-options] command [ command-arguments ]

Like, that's the whole shape of it. You got your optional trace or debug vibe check up front, then your -options, then the command you're actually here for, then whatever command-arguments it's hungry for. 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so, the shorewall-lite utility is literally the thing you use to control Shoreline Firewall Lite (Shorewall-lite). That's it, that's the job, and it does it beautifully. 👑

And now the plot twist for the history girlies: beginning with Shorewall 5.1.0, shorewall6-lite is a symbolic link pointing to the shorewall[1](8) executable, which then executes the command as if its -6 and -l options had been specified. Iconic behaviour honestly, no cap. 🫶

📝 NOTES 📝

1. shorewall https://shorewall.org/manpages//manpages/shorewall.html

(Yes bestie, that double //manpages in the URL is exactly how it is. Don't come for me, come for the source. 💀)

That's the whole page, fr fr — short and sweet, just like a good firewall rule. This one's filed under Administrative Commands and it's dated 09/24/2020, so go forth and administer, main character. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸