Automatic Network Shutdown / Restart
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 9 20:18:17 UTC 2009
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 01:56:26PM -0500, John Myshrall wrote:
> 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.
http://skindley.wordpress.com/2006/12/11/fedora-core-6-controlling-logins-by-time/
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