On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 09:19, Abacus Infomail wrote:

Ray,

Unless there's a reason not to.....

Why not post it to the list for all to see.....

I for one would welcome such a critter as I prepare for the same thing at our Bible School.

OK, here it is ... I do not use SuSEFirewall2, I rather use my own custom shell script, but you an add these rules to the susefirewall2_custom file (whatever it is called) with a little modification. In the archive are the following files, and this is where I put them: File My Location (change if you want to) ftpallowedinternal /etc/firewall nightftpallowed /etc/firewall iptables-firewall.rules /etc/firewall switchftp.sh /etc/firewall crontab.txt in yer crontab ... rc.d.firewall.sh /etc/rc.d with a link in rc3.d and rc5.d If you put the files in a different directory, just check inside them and change the patch as necessary (just in rc.d.firewall.sh and switchftp.sh) ... Enjoy! Ray

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Michael James wrote:

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My teenage daughter spends all her time at home chatting on MSN. It distracts her completely from being civil to her family and actually concentrating on her homework.

It's hard to ration because she does (sometimes) use her computer for study. If I just turn off her access to the internet she will appear with some reason she needs to connect.

How can I turn on a block on MSN so there is only 1 hour a day it works?

The house server (Suse8.2 soon to be 9.0) has the ADSL connection and runs SuSEfirewall2, NAT, squid, DNS, etc.

Thanks for any pointers, michaelj

PS: The solution need not be very watertight, I would be delighted if she learned enough about networks to circumvent it.

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