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How can I write a cron job that will block my internet from 7pm to 7am? (So I can get some sleep)

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I am using OSX 10.6 and it has cron built in. How can I write a cron job that will block my internet from 7pm to 7am every day? Im sure this must be simple but I could only find one example online and it didn't work. It said to: I did this and google still came up.

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set /etc/hosts.allow file to 
be empty 
set hosts.deny file to
ALL : ALL

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After spending many hours trying to debug an issue with the job not running from root, I was able to get what you said working. Here are my exact steps: In the terminal type: Then type: and that does it! Credit to @Amardeep and @Stephenr for their c…

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