Custom initialization?

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Bernie Doehner

• October 05, 2020 21:12

Dear Community:

 

I am not making any progress. I need to add a crontab entry at bootup.

Postings I read said to add a script to ~pi/.firewalla/config/post_main.d

but I find that that script ending in .sh and executable does not run at bootup.

Is there some sysctl I need to toggle to make this work? I am not running beta (should I?)

Thanks/Bernie

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  Firewalla

  • October 05, 2020 22:59

  are you on alpha?  you need to be on early access and also these scripts only work on the gold (for now, and will be available to other platforms when they reason 1.971).  https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360046872134-Early-Access-Onboarding

   

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  Bernie Doehner

  • October 05, 2020 23:18

  Oh boy. I am not on beta at the moment. That would explain what I am missing for the startup script to work. Let me try joining beta

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  Firewalla

  • October 06, 2020 00:02

  Make sure you are on early access, early access is earlier than beta :)  Early access is a bit less stable, but ... we are very liberal on changing things based on your feedback.

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  Bernie Doehner

  • October 06, 2020 01:21

  Oh.. I only know how to sign up for beta. How do I go to alpha?

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  Bernie Doehner

  • October 11, 2020 18:25

  Ok, I connected the dots reread our documentation and am now running Early Access.

   

  Here is what I have in ~.firewall/config/post_main.d

  pi@firewalla:~/.firewalla/config/post_main.d (Laconia) $ ls -la

  total 16

  drwxrwxr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Oct  5 20:24 .

  drwxr-xr-x 6 pi pi 4096 Oct  5 19:54 ..

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi  186 Oct  5 19:40 add.sh

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 pi pi   47 Oct  5 19:50 hello.sh

  pi@firewalla:~/.firewalla/config/post_main.d (Laconia) $

  pi@firewalla:~/.firewalla/config/post_main.d (Laconia) $ cat add.sh

  sleep 300

  (crontab -u pi -l ; echo "* * * * * /home/pi/NASHUA_UP.sh" | sort -) | uniq - | crontab -u pi -

  pi@firewalla:~/.firewalla/config/post_main.d (Laconia) $ cat hello.sh

  echo "BERNIE WAS HERE" > /home/pi/LOG_WAS_HERE

   

  Neither add.sh nor hello.sh are being called, yet I can run them by hand.

  What am I doing wrong?

   

   

   

   

   

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  Bernie Doehner

  • October 11, 2020 18:30

  I think I found it.   My firewalla app says I am on 1.97 but 

  https://help.firewalla.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051625034-Guide-How-to-install-Pi-Hole-on-Gold-Beta-?source=search&auth_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhY2NvdW50X2lkIjoyMTU1NjA2LCJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MDYzNTAxOTU0OTMsInRpY2tldF9pZCI6MjE5MDEsImNoYW5uZWxfaWQiOjYzLCJ0eXBlIjoiU0VBUkNIIiwiZXhwIjoxNjA1MDMyNDkwfQ.md1RJaeJVmr89JKImgQJffR7LU6WwIkeUk9ntZfg1KU

   

  Says I need to run 1.971

   

  Let me guess, this will happen automatically now that I am on Early Access (switched about 20 minutes ago)

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  Firewalla

  • October 11, 2020 19:15

  Check the about button, if it says 1.971 then it is on 1.971

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  Jeremy

  • October 29, 2020 00:06

  typically you also add the shebang at the top of the script but it depends how the script is being executed.

  add

  #!/bin/sh

  make sure you chmod +x to toggle the executable flag.

  update this thread with success or failure. i'm curious if you got this working or not.

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  James Willhoite

  • November 08, 2020 21:02

  @firewalla when the script is executed, is it executed as root or pi?

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