External scripts with PF.

[Peter Maxwell]

2009/12/21 Tom Uffner <tom at uffner.com>:
> Gaurav Ghimire wrote:
>>
>> Are there any possibilities that I could run a script (bash, perl) when
>> any rule is matched.
>
> make sure the rule you want to trigger your script includes "log".
>
> have your script tail pflog, and watch for your trigger rule before
> performing its action.

Erm, not to sound completely ignorant but I'm assuming that implies he
has to write a perl script to parse binary output?  He can't pipe it
though tcpdump as that would be a seriously bad idea.