Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:47:25 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Marwan Sultan <Admin@kifco.net> Cc: FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cron or ipfw problem! Message-ID: <20040220204725.GH68896@nkinkade.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20040220201619.M35470@kifco.net> References: <20040220201619.M35470@kifco.net>
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--SVeEiVwWO9F1slJ8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:33:45PM +0300, Marwan Sultan wrote: > Hello bsd, >=20 > I have FreeBSD 4.8R, NATd, ipfw enabled. >=20 > I want to add a rule to ipfw which activate from 3AM to 3PM : says: > ipfw 05000 add deny all from 192.168.1.21 to any >=20 > So I created a shell script lets say deny.sh says the above rule and > I chmod +x the script. > =20 > Second shell script lets say enable.sh to delete this ipfw which sure > says ipfw delete 05000 >=20 > So in this case I have to shell scripts one will Activate the > ipfw rule (add) and will deactivate it (delete). >=20 > How to run the scripts? thro crontab I fixed my crontab to=20 > 0 3 * * * /path/deny.sh > 0 15 * * * /path/enable.sh >=20 > Am i doing something wrong? is it a stupid thing? >=20 > The crontab runs at the schedualed times and I can see in /var/log/cron > /usr/sbin/cron[18525]: (root) CMD (/path/deny.sh) >=20 > But the ipfw will not be added! why? the email log says: ipfw: not found >=20 > why? is it a crontab mistake? shell script mistake? ipfw? >=20 > I tried many many other commands in the shell script such as mkdir, > rm-rf whatever.. all works, except this ipfw? >=20 > Any advise? Help? better ideas? >=20 > Thank you > -- > Marwan Sultan It would be useful to see the contents of the script. Two things come to mind: 1) Did you specificy the full path to ipfw in your script? 2) Just to be sure, is the cron job in root's crontab, or possibly a regular users? Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --SVeEiVwWO9F1slJ8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFANnJdO0ZIEthSfkkRAhg0AJ99kUxV77cna/fJwxPq5CB8os5jKwCdGINn ZOLhF3BxEONb7oi52lZImPs= =jWQQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SVeEiVwWO9F1slJ8--
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