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A code to upgrade current config to new format will be necessary too

Shawn Bruce wrote:

I have created a diff for firewall_aliases_edit.php against the latest git version. Would this be acceptable?

I am not sure how item 2 is handled as I only saw the crontab entry being populated from the /etc/inc/upgrade_config.inc file

Ah never mind. I forgot about the ability to change the type on the fly...

rc.update_urltables accepts the parameter argv¹, and looks for the option now.

I've put in my crontab

* * * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 /etc/rc.update_urltables now 

Then modified rc.update_urltables to made this change

 foreach ($todo as $t) {
                if( $argv[1] == "now" ) {
                    $t['freq']=0;
                }

So while this works for me with the one update call I make to a script that monitors all my EC2 IPs..

This solves my issue for now, but I think it would definitely make more sense to have freq be able to accept minutes rather then days.