Post Upgrade Script?

[TomTheOne]

Hi all

I'm looking for a possibility to run serveral tasks after an pfSense upgrade has been performed. Is there a forseen possibility to run a customized post upgrade script or similar?

As another option, i tried to analyse /usr/local/libexec/pfSense-upgrade. I understand that initally a kernel update will be performed and then the box will be rebooted afterwards. I tried to add my custom actions within the section 'if [ "${next_stage}" = "2" ]; then', but as i can see this section is not beeing executed in case a reboot was performed. Does somebody know where the stage2 will be launched after a reboot?

Best regards
Tom

[TomTheOne]

Ok - i found out why my modifications in pfSense-upgrade never run. They are overwitten by a newer upgrade-script before the update will be performed...

	# If a new version of pfSense-upgrade is available, upgrade it
	# and return a special code 99 used by wrapper to run newer
	# version again using the same parameters
	if [ "$(compare_pkg_version ${product}-upgrade)" != "=" ]; then
		_exec "pkg-static upgrade${dont_update} -f \
		    ${product}-upgrade" "Upgrading ${product}-upgrade" \
		    mute
		_exit 99
	fi

Dear devs:

• Can we get the possibility to configure a post-upgrade script?
• Probably a script that we can configure in /etc/inc/globals.inc?
• Probably we can link to it like this: https://myhost.localdomain.local/my_pfsense_postupgrade_script.sh?
• Or maybe in the config file?
• And we can configure a post_upgrade_script.sh within the GUI?

Br
Tom

[TomTheOne]

Hi all

I was able to create a solution for my need by using "the hidden config.xml option <shellcmd> will run the command specified towards the end of the boot process."

See here: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Executing_commands_at_boot_time

A snippet of code called by <shellcmd>

VERSION=`cat /etc/version`
PATCH=`cat /etc/version.patch`
CONFCHECK="/cf/conf/checkfile-${VERSION}-${PATCH}.done"

if [ ! -f ${CONFCHECK} ]; then
# do some stuff
touch ${CONFCHECK}
fi

If someone has a better option, please let me know - would be awesome.

Have fun
Tom

[jimp]

That's unlikely to be supported as there really aren't enough use cases to justify jumping through the hoops to get there.

You may have more luck using an <earlyshellcmd> to test on boot and perform your action.

[TomTheOne]

Hi Jim

We have posted nearly the same time our reply. Thank you for the hint, that is what i was looking for. However, my personal believe is, of course this is a solution but probably not the smartest and sexiest. Maybe there is a explicit 'post upgrade script'-possibility for the future.

Cheers
Tom