Schedule Guiderails

[tonysamson]

Background:

I'm using Guiderails for my kids' devices and I find it really amazing. My only problem is that it is kinda very restrictive in a sense that it doesn't give them free time on a certain time of the day or during the weekends.

Issue:

To address my issue, I'm thinking of setting a cron job to turn on and off the "Enable DNS-based Filtering" at a certain time.

Question:

What SSH command should I use to turn on or off the "Enable DNS-based Filtering"?

 

[Zastoff]

Background:

I'm using Guiderails for my kids' devices and I find it really amazing. My only problem is that it is kinda very restrictive in a sense that it doesn't give them free time on a certain time of the day or during the weekends.

Issue:

To address my issue, I'm thinking of setting a cron job to turn on and off the "Enable DNS-based Filtering" at a certain time.

Question:

What SSH command should I use to turn on or off the "Enable DNS-based Filtering"?

Think this enable/disable dns-filter and for it to take effect.

nvram set dnsfilter_enable_x=0 or 1
nvram commit
service restart_firewall;restart_dnsmasq

 

[tonysamson]

Think this enable/disable dns-filter and for it to take effect.

nvram set dnsfilter_enable_x=0 or 1
nvram commit
service restart_firewall;restart_dnsmasq

Thank you so much. Based on your advise, I did the following:

1. Created a file named "services-start" in /jffs/scripts/

nano /jffs/scripts/services-start

2. In /jffs/scripts/services-start, I wrote this:

#!/bin/sh
# This script gets called after all other system services
# have been started at boot on router
# ---------------------------------------------------------
cru a OnDNSFilter "0 18 * * 7 /jffs/scripts/On_DNS_Filter.sh"
cru a OffDNSFilter "0 15 * * 5 /jffs/scripts/Off_DNS_Filter.sh"

3. The Cron Job above will turn on DNS Filter at 6pm every Sunday and turn it off at 3pm every Friday.

5. Then I made "services-start" executable thru this command:

chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/services-start

6. Created a script to turn On the DNS Filter:

nano /jffs/scripts/On_DNS_Filter.sh

7. In the On_DNS_Filter.sh file, I wrote the following:

#!/bin/sh
# Purpose: Turn On DNS Filter. Block kids internet access
# Author: Tony Samson
# -------------------------------------------------------------
nvram set dnsfilter_enable_x=1
nvram commit
service restart_firewall
service restart_dnsmasq

8. Exited. Ctrl-X. Then saved the file. Then I made "On_DNS_Filter.sh" executable thru this command:

chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/On_DNS_Filter.sh

9. Created a script to turn Off the DNS Filter:

nano /jffs/scripts/Off_DNS_Filter.sh

10. In the Off_DNS_Filter.sh file, I wrote the following:

#!/bin/sh
# Purpose: Turn off DNS Filter. Allow kids internet access
# Author: Tony Samson
# -------------------------------------------------------------
nvram set dnsfilter_enable_x=0
nvram commit
service restart_firewall
service restart_dnsmasq

11. Exited. Ctrl-X. Then saved the file. Then I made "Off_DNS_Filter.sh" executable thru this command:

chmod a+rx /jffs/scripts/Off_DNS_Filter.sh

I'm sure other people will have a better way to do this. I just wanna write it down so others, not as technically proficient can also do it. Thank you so much for this very helpful community.

Btw, please let me know if I did something wrong. I won't really know if I did it right until my kids will complain about it. LOL.