Hi.
I am running Suse 7.3 with Firewall 2. Now i want to disable portforwarding at scheduled times, to disable Microsoft Messenger from my Lan. I can'r let MSN run through squid because one of the client's is a iMac and the MSN client for the iMac won't allow the use of Generic Proxy.
So i am using portformarding for that. (IP_Forward). Is there a possibility to make a cron job for disabling MSN in working hours ?
So why not, edit /etc/crontab as follows 0 20 * * * /sbin/SuSEfirewall start file /etc/rc.config.d/firewall2.rc.config.night 0 08 * * * /sbin/SuSEfirewall start file /etc/rc.config.d/firewall2.rc.config.day cp to firewall.configs to day|night and adapt them snip /sbin/SuSEfirewall ------ Options: start generate and load the firewall filter rules from /etc/rc.config.d/firewall2.rc.config stop unload all filter rules close no incoming network traffic except bootp+ping (used for boot security) file FILENAME same as \"start\" but load alternate config file FILENAME test generate and load the filter rules but do not drop any packet but log to syslog anything which *would* be denied status print the output of \"iptables -L -nv\" debug print the iptables command to stdout instead of executing them help this output Calling $0 without any option is the same as the \"start\" option. The \"file FILENAME\" option my be used with the start, test and debug options.\n" exit 0 } ------ snap Yours Michael Appeldorn