cron or ipfw problem!

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 11:33:45PM +0300, Marwan Sultan wrote:
> Hello bsd,
> 
>   I have FreeBSD 4.8R, NATd, ipfw enabled.
> 
>   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
> 
>   So I created a shell script lets say deny.sh says the above rule and
>   I chmod +x the script.
>   
>   Second shell script lets say enable.sh to delete this ipfw which sure
>   says ipfw delete 05000
> 
>   So in this case I have to shell scripts one will Activate the
>   ipfw rule (add) and will deactivate it (delete).
> 
>   How to run the scripts? thro crontab I fixed my crontab to 
>   0 3 * * * /path/deny.sh
>   0 15 * * * /path/enable.sh
> 
>   Am i doing something wrong? is it a stupid thing?
> 
>   The crontab runs at the schedualed times and I can see in /var/log/cron
>   /usr/sbin/cron[18525]: (root) CMD (/path/deny.sh)
> 
>   But the ipfw will not be added! why? the email log says: ipfw: not found
> 
>   why? is it a crontab mistake? shell script mistake? ipfw?
> 
>   I tried many many other commands in the shell script such as mkdir,
>   rm-rf whatever.. all works, except this ipfw?
> 
>   Any advise? Help? better ideas?
> 
>   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
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