Re: Calling external file parameters into scripts?
banned_site is a user defined chain.
Thanks for the info on calling an external file. It worked perfectly
(once I got the PATH setup correctly)!! Thanks again.
Lance Peterson
---- "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:55:06PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote:
> > I'm trying to call an external file in a bash firewall script on
> my Debian
> > system. The external file is /etc/ban_list. I tried this without
> success:
> >
> > for site in /etc/ban_list; do
> > iptables -A banned_site -s site -j DROP
> > done
> >
> > Can someone show me the right way to call in parameters to a script
> from
> > an external file?
>
> Umm, is "banned_site" a parameter to iptables or a variable?
>
> for site in $(cat /etc/ban_list); do
> iptables -A banned_site -s $site -j DROP
> done
>
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> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
>
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