On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 02:55:08 -0400, Jeffrey Walton said: > One last question... Should I create my own target - say mediawiki - > and append my rules to it? That may simplify things: > > * Header, newstuff and trailer is fixed > * newstuff just jumps to mediawiki target > * if mediawiki does not ban, then control returns to trailer > > Then, my out-of-proc service just keeps adding to mediawiki target. I > don't need to write files in this case. I'll just keep adding to the > running config. That totally fails if your machine reboots, because there's no memory of what the rules were before the reboot.