[KLUG Members] ipcop ipchains rules

[Adam Bultman]

Why do you want to stop it?  Isn't the point of a firewall to have it
running all the time, so that no one can get in all the time?  Or are you
having it filter out 'naughty' sites?


adam

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Rusty Yonkers wrote:

> I want to shutdown my ipcop firewall at 11 at night when the teens are to be
> in bed and start it up the next morning.  The web site says I should be able
> to put in a cron job that would have the following lines....
>
> 0 23 * * * /sbin/ipchains -I ethernetout 1 -i eth1 -j DENY
> 0 23 * * * /sbin/ipchains -I ethernetin 1 -i eth1 -j DENY
>
> 0 6 * * * /sbin/ipchains -D ethernetout 1 -i eth1
> 0 6 * * * /sbin/ipchains -D ethernetin 1 -i eth1
>
> When I type the /sbin/ipchains part of the listings in  at the command prompt
> I first get the error "ethernetout chain name too long must be 8 characters
> or less"
>
> I change the name to etherout and run the command again and get the error "no
> target by that name".
>
> Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong??
>
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