Index: chey/start.sh
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--- chey.orig/start.sh
+++ chey/start.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+# May I suggest Ruby?  It has awesome date & time string processing, and features
+# regular expressions a la Perl.
+# Python has crap for date & time processing, as far as I remember.
 
 userfile=users.list
 groupfile=groups.list
@@ -12,6 +15,7 @@ function runip() {
   if [ `echo $gline | awk '{print $2}'` = "ALL" ] ; then
     echo $iptables -A $ipgroup -p ALL -i $GREEN -s `echo $userline | awk '{print $2}'` -j ACCEPT
   else
+    # instead of this... {
     z=1
     portnumb=`echo $gline | awk '{print $2}' | sed /,/s//"\n"/g | wc -l`
     if [ $portnumb -gt 1 ] ; then
@@ -23,12 +27,27 @@ function runip() {
     else
       echo $iptables -A $ipgroup -p ALL -i $GREEN -s `echo $userline | awk '{print $2}'` --dport `echo $gline | awk '{print $2}'` -j ACCEPT
     fi
+    # }
+
+    # Do this: {
+    portlist=$(echo $gline | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e 's:,: :g')
+    ipaddress=$(echo $userline | awk '{print $2}')
+    for port in $portlist; do
+        echo $iptables -A $ipgroup -p udp -i $GREEN -s $ipaddress --dport $port -j ACCEPT
+        echo $iptables -A $ipgroup -p tcp -i $GREEN -s $ipaddress --dport $port -j ACCEPT
+    done
+    # }
   fi
 
 #  echo $iptables -A $ipgroup -p ALL -I $GREEN -s `echo $userline | awk '{print $2}'` --dport `echo $gline | awk '{print $2
 #  echo bla
 }
 
+function hourmin2min() {
+    hour="$1"; min="$2";
+    expr $min '+' $hour '*' 60
+}
+
 # See how many lines are in the userfile
 usernumb=`wc -l $userfile | awk '{print $1}'`
 
@@ -78,11 +97,23 @@ do
     fi
     if [ $starthour -eq $currhour ]; then
       if [ $startmin -lt $currmin ] ; then
+        # Wouldn't you need to check end minutes here if endhour -eq currhour?
         runip
       fi
     fi
   fi
 
+  # Better idea: convert everything to minutes
+  currmin2=$(hourmin2min $currhour $currmin)
+  startmin2=$(hourmin2min $starthour $startmin)
+  endmin2=$(hourmin2min $endhour $endmin)
+
+  if [ $startmin2 -gte $currmin2 ]; then
+      if [ $endmin2 -lte $currmin2 ]; then
+          runip
+      fi
+  fi
+
   let x+=1
 done