is there a way to flush a whole zone's rich rules on firewalld?

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I have added many rich rule with something like this:

 firewall-cmd --permanent --zone="thezone" --add-rich-rule='rule family=ipv4 source address=1.2.3.4 reject'

And now I would like to clear/remove all those rich rules in my "thezone" zone.

Also y try to remove line for line with :

 firewall-cmd --permanent --zone="thezone" --remove-rich-rule='rule family=ipv4 source address=1.2.3.4 reject'

or

 firewall-cmd --permanent --zone="thezone" --remove-rich-rule='rule family=ipv4 source address=1.2.3.4 accept'

or

 firewall-cmd --permanent --zone="thezone" --add-rich-rule='rule family=ipv4 source address=1.2.3.4 accept'

with the firewall-cmd --reload and still haven't succeed.

Can Anyone tell me how to clear all or tell what i'm doing wrong with one by one method?

for those who did not know theres is a xml file in /etc/firewalld/zones with the name of the zone like: the zone.xml and you can edit/remove rules there. — Mik, Commented Nov 4, 2015 at 18:52

user495489 · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-08 13:22:13Z

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Empty the contents of (or remove):

Note: where zone is the name of the zone you need to remove.

Then restart the firewalld service

answered Nov 8, 2018 at 13:22

user495489

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This is the correct answer and is similar to @Mik who posted a comment on their own question. The filename in question might differ, for example, on my system it's public.xml and public.xml.old. I run Virtualmin / Webmin.
– Eugene van der Merwe
Commented Nov 17, 2021 at 6:34

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