Place for custom startup scripts & commands

[sloan]

I want to place a simple sniffer command to run at startup I looked for a file like rc.local in Linux,  couldn't find one.  Can I just create a file /etc/rc.sniffscript and make it an executable file?

cat rc.sniffscript

tcpdump -i dc1 not port 22 and not port 53 and not port 110 and not arp and not dst host expertcity.com  >> /var/log/sniffer

I would just try it but I don't want to break anything.

[sullrich]

Use the shellcmd family of commands:

http://faq.pfsense.org/index.php?sid=325876&lang=en&action=artikel&cat=10&id=38&artlang=en

[Justinw]

Just make a shell script and put it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, make it end in .sh
The box will execute it every time the box starts/restarts

[hoba]

The shellcmd options in the config.xml get backed up with the config.xml. I prefer this attempt as it lets you easier restore a system.