On Oct 28 11:55:33, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> my pf.conf contains
>
> table <spamd-white> persist file "/etc/mail/spamd-white"
>
> I understand that I can add and delete hosts from the table manually
> later, but on very large tables this is pretty painful.
> There is a high risk that the table has just been flushed
Why would the table be flushed?
> and is not up-to-date yet,
> while the next EMail comes in.
What do you mean by up to date
and what does it have to do with the "pain"
of adding addresses? An address is added when it is added.
> table from file and hand it off to pf in an atomic operation?
man pfctl says:
For the add, delete, replace, and test commands, the list of
addresses can be specified either directly on the command line
and/or in an unformatted text file, using the -f flag.
I don't know how atomic that is: is the table either empty
or does it contain all the addresses in the file? I would
guess the addresses are added as they are read, just like
when you add them manually.
