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[alexus]

I just placed my script on the pfSense Dev image and when I was trying to execute it (bash script i got errors)

a) No bash ?
b) no DIR commands?

I've chaked the bin rirectory and ddint find the command there, so i will try to add them.  But the question is, if i add them therewill they will be included in compiled image?

also i will neeed those commands:

1. case
   2)grep
   3)cut
   4)awk
   5)wget

[jeroen234]

replace bash shell with tcsh or sh shell
replace youre wget commands with fetch commands
all the other commands are all ready in embedded 1.01

dir is called ls on bsd systems

[alexus]

Ok, so now I know what is a dofference in BSD and Linux.

"…all the other commands are all ready in embedded 1.01 " I didnt find any dev image for 1.01 so i used 1.0 but i did that long upgrade that it oferred, didnt really the the thing adding the commands but O look again today

[alexus]

Ok skript works now… one thing to get more reliable picture i wnat to check which interface assigned to LAN and WAN, I assome there is a file somwhere that says LAN=eth0 WAN=eth1
If I can get the interface names i can extract the IP values ... sure I can get them from config file, but i rather get the aluef directly from the OS (besides i have no idea how to make bach script to read XML)

[hoba]

you may might be able to utilize some code from interfaces>assign or status>interfaces. Both these screens show information on which nic is assigned to which uinterfacename.

[alexus]

do you refer to PHP pages?

[hoba]

Yes.

[alexus]

I'm there now, still cant find the file weher intergface assigments are stored… unles its webguiconfig.in

[alexus]

$g['varrun_path'] . "/lan.conf.dirty";

Is that config I need? what tha value of g[varrun_path]?

[sullrich]

/etc/inc/globals.inc

[alexus]

actually I was fullish and miss the part in the main confog file that is cleraly saying LAN=eth1 etc in the XML file, just as usual…. so now im looking on how to read XML w/ bash script... aperantly i have no idea how to do that...

[sullrich]

Erm, I dont think there is a EASY way to do this.  Good luck!

[alexus]

Good, so at the end you wont tell me that my script is too easy :-P

[sullrich]

Technically you could call php from your bash script and echo out the values after parsing but this is going to be SLLLOOOW.

[alexus]

well besides slow it will eat extra ~15% of CPU, for wrap that is not an option. And in combination to the fact that the script does HTTP request to the external server I definettly dont want to call PHP XML parser… in my case I will have to call it min 2 times and the  3rd will be external HTTP request.

Well lets see what i end up with. Im sure linux/bsd shuld have ability to read xml files.

[jeroen234]

lets take a look at it from a difrent side and use the pfsense rules file and get there the lan and wan from

 #!/bin/sh
lan=`awk '/lan = "\{ /{ print $0 }' /tmp/rules.debug | sed -e 's/lan = "{ //' | sed -e 's/ }"//'`
wan=`awk '/wan = "\{ /{ print $0 }' /tmp/rules.debug | sed -e 's/wan = "{ //' | sed -e 's/ }"//'`
echo "lan interface=" $lan
echo "wan interface=" $wan

[alexus]

nice that screept does work.. i was doing almost the same w/ xml just now… but as I see in that example it uses temp dir? is that dor will be included in future releases? is that dir exist in mono, and finally what rules does it refering to? firewall rules? what if NAT is disabled?
Tnx

[jeroen234]

i have made that script on a running pfsense embedded 1.01 soekris
/tmp/rules.debug is the running firewall config of pfsense
mono will have it to i think
nat on or off will not chance the lan of wan interface on the firewall

[alexus]

ok if that folder is permament and present on both mono and pfSense I will use it …
Less hedeach reading XML file for me..

Tnx

[alexus]

Ok,  operational script partd is done! Now time to build user enterface. PHP time :-) well almowst php + DNS, I hate my DNS…