Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:25:44 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Sean Ellis <sellis@intergate.ca> Cc: Zev Thompson <zev@interchange.ubc.ca>, Scott Nolde <scott@smnolde.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfw script values Message-ID: <20011106152544.F386@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <179093989.20011106145020@intergate.ca>; from sellis@intergate.ca on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:50:20PM -0800 References: <3.0.32.20011106123552.00db8e40@pop.interchange.ubc.ca> <20011106141846.C386@blossom.cjclark.org> <179093989.20011106145020@intergate.ca>
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On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:50:20PM -0800, Sean Ellis wrote:
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> I have a couple of related questions. Since I have more than one
> script I was hoping to be able define an enviromental variable that I
> could check really easily in case I forget which was the last script
> that ran; ie. 'echo $FW'. Nothing I've tried so far works. I've added
> the line 'echo $0 > /var/run/firewall', which is good, but I'd like to
> know why my attempts to export the value failed.
I don't think a child can change the parent's environment.
> Also, the DHCP client on my Slackware box executes a script when the
> ip changes, does the FreeBSD dhcp client have the same function. I
> couldn't find it when I looked, thanks,
dhclient-script(8).
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