On 03/04/12 12:31, Sebastian Arcus wrote: >>> Thanks for the suggestion. However, restarting the firewall (which >>> flushes and re-writes the rules) makes absolutely no difference. I >> >> Did you substitute the changed time? I don't see how using different >> times in your rules would make no difference. Indeed, if not changing >> times, reloading the same rules would make no difference. > > Sorry - you are right - I didn't substitute the times in the firewall > rules. On the other hand - a script which would restart the machine is > easier (in this particular case) - than one which would amend the > firewall rules and reload them. Not sure if this is relevant, but getting a local time in UTC in a shell script isn't hard: date --utc -d "$(date "+%H:%M:%S +%z" -d 09:00:00)" +%H:%M:%S In California right now that gives 16:00:00 and in the UK 08:00:00 You could use that to reload your firewall rules on a daily basis (after the time the clocks change) or just for the date that the clocks change (last Sunday in March and October respectively in the UK). jch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
