Automatic Network Shutdown / Restart

[John Myshrall]

I'm trying to condition my kids into submission over dinner time and I 
am tired of the debate. Short of disabling the internet for their 
accounts I wanted to set up an automated process. There is some stuff 
going on here https://launchpad.net/webcontentcontrol I'm not interested 
in this at this time and it appears to not have a time lock out.

I'm trying to invoke at 17:00 ifconfig eth0 down and at 19:00 ifconfig 
eth0 up. I created a simple script for each command. I tested each and 
they work and they are both executable. I placed them in /bin and set up 
a root crontab job.

Both my home boxes are shut down at night and I think this is part of 
where what I want to do fails. IIRC Cron is meant for machines that are 
up 24/7 and anacron is used more so for infrequent task over a delay 
period. I'm new to using cron / anacron so I'm missing the point 
somewhere. I've read up that root doesn't have access to a user X 
session and think this may also be part on the problem.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

John



 

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