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Re: Limiting internet access by time

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On Fri 05 Aug 2016 at 15:03:47 (+0100), Brian wrote:
> On Fri 05 Aug 2016 at 12:00:28 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 05 August 2016 11:40:28 Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > How essential is this? cron could
> > >
> > >   ip route add default via <gateway_IP>
> > >
> > > at specific times between 9pm and 9am and then remove the default route.
> > > If the machine isn't up all the time it seems unnecessary to me.
> > 
> > Perhaps he wants to stop his children/grandchildren/house guests surfing the 
> > web at 3:00 am. 
> 
> Possibly.
> 
> Let us look at this from a different angle. If the machine is given a
> fixed address it negates the need for dhcp checking, If, additionally,
> no gateway to the internet is specified there would be no access to the
> internet at any time.
> 
> For an always-on machine cron jobs could switch routing at 9am and 9pm.
> If the machine was rebooted after 9pm there would be no internet. A
> reboot after 9am presents a problem. This could be solved by having cron
> check every five minutes between 9am and 9pm and providing a gateway to
> the internet.

No need to wait for five minutes; cron has a @reboot parameter, eg,

@reboot /sbin/kbdrate -r 8 -d 500 -s

slows down the keyboard repeat key so that Cindy-Sue can login more easily.

Cheers,
David.

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  Re: Limiting internet access by time Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 09:30 +0200
    Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 17:40 +0200
  Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 12:50 +0200
    Re: Limiting internet access by time Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 13:10 +0200
      Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 16:10 +0200
        Re: Limiting internet access by time David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 18:00 +0200
        Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-05 18:00 +0200
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            Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-06 07:30 +0200
              Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-07 03:00 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-07 05:40 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-07 20:20 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-08 02:10 +0200
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                Re: Limiting internet access by time Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-09 21:20 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-10 15:40 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-10 17:00 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-08-10 18:10 +0200
                Re: Limiting internet access by time Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-10 22:40 +0200
          Re: Limiting internet access by time Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-08-05 20:50 +0200
            Re: Limiting internet access by time Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-08-06 07:30 +0200
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        Re: Limiting internet access by time pv29@gatech.edu - 2016-08-08 01:10 +0200
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