Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:33:12 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: iaccounts@northnetworks.ca, freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl IPFW script Message-ID: <200312082333.12429.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <1070919576.704.159.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca> References: <1070919576.704.159.camel@ptp.northnetworks.ca>
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On Monday 08 December 2003 22:39, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> I have recently developed a perl FreeBSD script which works flawlessly
> when run at the command prompt, but does not run at startup. I have the
> standard entry for firewall_script="/path/scriptname" in /etc/rc.conf,
> but it won't load.
>
> Any suggestions?
AFAIR rc.d/ipfw does not require "mountall" which means that your /usr
partition isn't neccessarly mounted which will make your perlscript fail.
sourcing ${firewall_script} in ipfw should not cause problems.
$dmesg -a is a nice tool ;)
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