[ic] IC not responding

Jon Jensen jon at endpoint.com
Mon Nov 21 17:01:55 EST 2005


On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Sandy Thomson wrote:

>> Try something like (off the top of my head, untested):
>> 
>> iptables -I INPUT -s %s -j DROP; echo 'iptables -D INPUT -s %s -j DROP' | 
>> at now + 1 hours
>
> Thats pretty neat, I have never heard of the at command.  Surely if you were 
> being hammered by multiple IP's, that would leave loads of at processes 
> hanging around?

I don't recall anyone replying to this. "at" is a daemon, so the "at" 
command just queues a job for the future. It should be safe to add 
hundreds or thousands of jobs like that with no adverse effect.

See atd, atrun, and at.

Jon


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