blocking ip addess at late at night using firestarter?

almost000 · 07-23-2007, 12:19 AM

my kids are using the computer late, I am using firestarter and I don't see anything about blocking web sites at night so the kids go to slleep. I alot manually add there ip address at night and remove it . but this its geting be a lot of work. the gateway is running fedora 7. thank you

lazlow · 07-23-2007, 12:40 AM

Program it as a cron job. See man cron.

jschiwal · 07-23-2007, 03:09 AM

For small kids, you might want to use a whitelist to control which sites they can visit. Another thing to consider is having the computer in a family area and not in their bedroom. If they don't have root access to the computer that they use, you could edit the /etc/security/access.conf. This can prevent them from logging in after a certain time. I haven't used this, so I don't know what happens if they logged in earlier.

archtoad6 · 07-23-2007, 12:37 PM

Is their computer running Linux?

Does the gateway have squid running?

almost000 · 07-23-2007, 04:49 PM

There computer is running Windows XP Home SP2. I love to use squid but have failed to get it working. eth0 is the lan and eth1 is conned DSL modem.

archtoad6 · 07-24-2007, 02:50 PM

I see 4 choices:

Get squid running on Fedora on the gateway.
Switch the gateway to something like SmoothWall Express that installs a working squid -- you'll still have to master the ACL's.
Take lazlow's advice & do it w/ a cron job.
Do it w/in "Winders". (I don't even know if that's possible, let alone desirable.)

I suspect #3 is the best choice for you.

almost000 · 07-24-2007, 03:26 PM

Well I have been reading a lot on that it just does not seem to make sence. I have used Ipcop in the past . but I like mplayer (aka its near my tv) and when I leaned How easy the gui for firestarter was I have been using that. Do you know any guide that step you though squid using webmin. or squids own WWW interface. thank you

)HP PIII 650MHz runnning Fedora

almost000 · 07-25-2007, 05:38 PM

I start the Squid server via webmin on the host computer. and then I set up my bowers to connect to a socket v4 proxy and tell that to connect to my gatways IP port 3128. but I an not sure what to do to with /etc/squid/squid.conf to get the server working.