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License</a></span>”.</p></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">2008/12/15</p></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="#Tarball">Falling Back to the Previous Version of Shorewall using the
Fallback Script</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#RPM">Falling Back to the Previous Version of Shorewall using rpm</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#Uninstall">Uninstalling Shorewall</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#Shell-Perl">Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="Tarball"></a>Falling Back to the Previous Version of Shorewall using the
Fallback Script</h2></div></div></div><p>If you install Shorewall and discover that it doesn't work for you,
you can fall back to your previously installed version. To do that:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>cd to the distribution directory for the version of Shoreline
Firewall that you are currently running (NOT the version that you want
to fall back to).</p></li><li><p>Type “<span class="quote">./fallback.sh</span>”</p></li></ul></div><div class="caution" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Caution</h3><p>The fallback script will replace /etc/shorewall[-lite]/*,
/var/lib/shorewall[-lite]/*, /etc/init.d/shorewall[-lilte]] (or
equivalent), and /sbin/shorewall[-lite] with the version of these files
from before the current version was installed. Any changes to any of
these files made since the installation will be lost.</p></div></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="RPM"></a>Falling Back to the Previous Version of Shorewall using rpm</h2></div></div></div><p>If your previous version of Shorewall was installed using RPM, you
may fall back to that version by typing “<span class="quote">rpm -Uvh --force <old
rpm></span>” at a root shell prompt (Example: “<span class="quote">rpm -Uvh --force
/downloads/shorewall-3.1.1-0.noarch.rpm</span>” would fall back to the
3.1.1-0 version of Shorewall).</p></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="Uninstall"></a>Uninstalling Shorewall</h2></div></div></div><p>If you no longer wish to use Shorewall, you may remove it by:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>cd to the distribution directory for the version of Shorewall
that you have installed.</p></li><li><p>type “<span class="quote">./uninstall.sh</span>”</p></li></ul></div><p>If you installed using an rpm, at a root shell prompt type
“<span class="quote">rpm -e shorewall</span>”.</p></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="Shell-Perl"></a>Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl</h2></div></div></div><p>Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl have no configuration files and
all of their released files are installed in a single directory. To
fallback to a prior release of one of these products using the tarballs,
simple re-install the older version.</p><p>To uninstall these products when they have been installed using the
tarballs:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>rm -rf /usr/share/shorewall-shell</p></li><li><p>rm -rf /usr/share/shorewall-perl</p></li></ul></div></div></div></body></html>
