Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 22:38:57 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap in cron and firewall Message-ID: <20080905223857.4a9c3569@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080905164926.07dbb9f1@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20080905141402.GJ5474@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20080905164926.07dbb9f1@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:49:26 +0100 RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:14:02 +0200 > Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> wrote: > But now with portsnap cron (that's mean random sleep) I don't known > > when the system try to connect outside. > You can do this > > sleep `jot -r 1 0 3599` > <open pf> > portsnap fetch > <close pf> > Actually, I just took a look at portsnap and I see that "portsnap fetch" has an explicit check for a terminal, so it wont work from crontab. > > However, I would suggest you simply create pf rules to allow the > server contact to the portsnap servers.
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