FW: Perl IPFW script

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Steve Bertrand wrote:

> > "/usr/bin/perl /path/scriptname" ? Is that going to work?
> >
> > is it executable ..
> > etc?
> >
>
> It is executable, however I will try adding the /usr/bin/perl to the
> script name and see if that works. I'll have to do that tonight however,
> as doing it now would knock about 5000 users offline temporarily ;o)

on current the  firewall_script  is sourced into /etc/rc.d/ipfw:

        if [ -r "${firewall_script}" ]; then
                . "${firewall_script}"


a perl script will always make this fail I guess.

good luck for your users ;-)

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