How to install wget and curl on pfsense shell?

torontob · Jul 8, 2011, 5:10 PM

Hi everyone,

I see that shell is practically stripped of a lot of useful tools. To start with I need wget and curl on shell. How can I install those two?

apt-get?

thanks

ericab · Jul 10, 2011, 9:35 PM

pkg_add -r curl

pkg_add -r wget

torontob · Jul 11, 2011, 8:50 PM

Thank you very much. I shall try that.

The reason why I want this is a safe reboot method to be able to curl or wget a file which contains instructions like "reboot" or do some other chores. Based on that, after wget grabs the file from my server how can I safely reboot pfSense from shell? would a simple "reboot" in shell be good enough? I am using Compact Flash card so I don't want any data loss to occur.

Thanks again,

jimp · Jul 13, 2011, 4:58 PM

Or just use "fetch" instead of wget/curl.

torontob · Jul 13, 2011, 10:24 PM

Thanks. And safe reboot is?