# Scripting

The behavior of FRR may be extended or customized using its built-in scripting capabilities.

Some configuration commands accept the name of a Lua script to call to perform some task or make some decision. These scripts have their environments populated with some set of inputs, and are expected to populate some set of output variables, which are read by FRR after the script completes. The names and expected contents of these scripts are documented alongside the commands that support them.

These scripts live in `/etc/frr/scripts/` by default. This is configurable at compile time via `--with-scriptdir`. It may be overriden at runtime with the `--scriptdir` daemon option.

In order to use scripting, FRR must be built with `--enable-scripting`.

Note

Scripts are typically loaded just-in-time. This means you can change the contents of a script that is in use without restarting FRR. Not all scripting locations may behave this way; refer to the documentation for the particular location.