[wplug-erie] Need Simple Program
Cindy Murdock
cmurdock at ccfls.org
Fri Jan 12 13:59:43 EST 2007
A fairly crude way to do it would be with a bash script that disabled
the network interface connected to the net and re-enabled it after an
hour, or however long you wanted to set it, with 'sleep'. Crude but
effective. You could run that script as a cron job, or manually
whenever you wanted to. You could do the opposite, a script that
enabled it when you want also. I imagine you could do the same with
firewall rules. I've never done anything with linux firewalling, but
OpenBSD has a firewall called pf which allows you extensive control of
your network. Here at work my firewall rules are four pages long when
printed. :)
c.
Logan wrote:
>> Thats the nice thing about open source. You want somethig bad enough,
>> you'll become a programmer.
>
> wait, why's that nice, or about open source?
> The same could be said of Windows - if you want it badly enough, you'll
> make it yourself.
>
> I think he was hoping the nice thing about open source was that there
> were enough tools so that someone more knowledgeable than he could throw
> something together for him in a few minutes.
>
>
> I've never had to do anything with dial-up in Linux, or with per-user
> network access. So I can't throw anything together for you. Sorry.
>
> If you do have to learn to program, I recommend Perl, as there are easy
> ways of running system commands and the syntax makes a lot more sense
> than Bash.
>
> -Logan
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