On Mon, 1 May 2000, Eugene Tyurin wrote: et> On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, you wrote: et> > Hi et> > I am wanting to start up a cybercafe using nothing but linux. I want on et> > a time based useage where at the end of the payed time it goes back to the et> > login screen. I know of a program for windows called cybertime but is there et> > something like this for linux? et> > et> > B.Rumsey et> et> There's no canned program like that for Linux that I'm aware of. BUT, et> the beauty of Unix is that it's like a Lego set. Just add a line into et> a login script that uses crontab or at facilities to issue a kill et> signal in N minutes. et> You may be able to do that in conjunction with the logoutd daemon which will enforce login restrictions. Havn't played with it myself, but worth looking at. et> --ET. et> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- 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/

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

cybercafe using nothing but linux? How often are you likely to tell your clients: "sorry, we do not do WORD", "No, we cannot offer you EXCEL processing", etc ... Got the picture? :-) Thomas Beauchamp -----Original Message----- From: Rocky McGaugh [mailto:rmcgaugh@atipa.com] Sent: 02 May 2000 16:44 To: B.Rumsey Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Cybercafe On Mon, 1 May 2000, B.Rumsey wrote: 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/ -- 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/