Re: what do you do to preserve pf tables over reboot? (spamd)

At 06:42 PM 10/17/05, Graham Toal wrote:

> > >On rebooting a system running OpenBSD spamd, the contents of
> > ><spamd> and <spamd-white> will be lost.
> > >
> > >The obvious thing that springs to mind is to do something like
> > >
> > >pfctl -T show -t spamd > <somewhere>/spamd.txt
> > >
> > >from cron every five minutes, then reload it with
> > >
> > >pfctl -T add -t spamd -f <somewhere>/spamd.txt
> > >
> > >on system boot up.
> > >
> > >Seems rather clunky; is there a neater way?
> >
> >
> > This might give you a clue...
> > http://www.elwood.net/greyspamd.html
>
>Sorry, I'm not seeing it.  I've read that doc a dozen times
>in the last two weeks and went over it top to bottom again
>just now and don't see anything relevant to my question.
>
>Could you be a little more explicit please?


I meant you should model your system after the examples on that 
page.  Using those examples (as I did two years ago), there is no need to 
save/reload spamd and spamd-white through a reboot.