On 8/11/06, beno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am half a world away from my console. If I make a mistake entering my
PF rules, I could lock myself out. It would be nice if I had a script I
could activate by cron that automatically flushed out my rc.conf that
I'm experimenting with and loaded the original. That way, I could set
the cron, load my experimental rc.conf, reboot and see if I could still
connect to my box. If I couldn't, then all I'd have to do is wait a few
minutes and then I could try again. Surely I'm not the first person to
have thought of this. Anyone have a script that does this?

I do this by having a screen session running, and a known-good pf.conf.safe:

# pfctl -f pf.conf && sleep 60 && pfctl -f pf.conf.safe

Then I detach my screen and try to login again, or test whatever I
wanted to. If it's all good and I haven't locked myself out, I just
have to get back into screen before 60 seconds pass and hit ^C. If I
don't do that in time, it'll load my safe ruleset.

/JMS
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