Re: [gentoo-user] modifying iptables: how can I prevent locking me out?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 00:14 on Tuesday 25 January 2011, Mark Knecht 
did opine thusly:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:59:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> Maybe a cron job that no matter what reloads the old rules 1 hour later?
> > 
> > Wouldn't at make more sense? You don't want the thing to keep reloading
> > your old config, at will do it once, and you can remove the task from the
> > at queue once you successfully log back in.
> > 
> > echo "command to reload old rules" | at now + 1 hour
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > Neil Bothwick
> 
> As a one-off test absolutely.


There's no such thing as a once-off test :-)

"Oh shit, it's still not working after 19 retries, 6 hours work, and extensive 
googling" most definitely does exist.

Maybe I'm just paranoid, or maybe I just screwed up myself too many times, but 
I'd feel safer with cron for this. Cancelling it when done is equally easy 
whether cron or at


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