On Mon, 1 May 2000, B.Rumsey wrote:
Hi I am wanting to start up a cybercafe using nothing but linux. I want on a time based useage where at the end of the payed time it goes back to the login screen. I know of a program for windows called cybertime but is there something like this for linux?
B.Rumsey
i once spent some time thinking about this. i planned on having all the clients running through a single firewall/masq box, and building a little tcl/tk app that would dynamically add and subtract masq rules for each client. could couple this with the 'at' command, so that for each station, with a single click, could run a script something like: #!/bin/sh # script to bring up this stations masq rule /usr/bin/masq_ip_up # something to warn them at 5 minutes left echo "/usr/bin/warn" | at now + 25 minutes # script to bring down this stations masq rule echo "/usr/bin/masq_ip_down" | at now + 30 minutes anyway, just some thoughts, hope they help..:) -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Product Development www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/