From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Feb 1 07:12:13 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BE1A970B4 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2016 07:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9893B1CB9 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2016 07:12:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id u117BjaZ051403; Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:11:45 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 18:11:45 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Valeri Galtsev cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "epilogue" script? In-Reply-To: <63014.76.192.184.12.1454168056.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> Message-ID: <20160201175827.E51785@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20160131000408.N51785@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <63014.76.192.184.12.1454168056.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 07:12:13 -0000 On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 09:34:16 -0600 (CST), Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Sat, January 30, 2016 8:19 am, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > We don't really know what Valeri wants to run, and whether it's one or > > more daemons, maybe including long-running background scripts, that may > > need start|stop|status control via service(8), or whether it's more > > simply one or more one-off tasks to be run sometime after startup? > > It is rather simple thing which I need. I'm trying to set up openvpn, and > I need _after_ starting openvpn daemon to add tap0 interface to the bridge > then set IP on the bridge and on tap0 interface the same as that of real > interface which is member of this bridge. This is the only way I managed > to make openvpn really work (by trial and error). I'm kind of not inclined > to use openvpn's mechanism (which they seemingly have) to do it (it is not > a first time I spent this long setting up something on FreeBSD, but it was > the first time I spent this time... hm, not that productive. My ignorance > is to blame, still...) I know absolutely nothing about openvpn or tap interfaces so can't help with that, except to suggest freebsd-net@ as the best place to ask. cheers, Ian