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adds notification center support totcpblock.

tcpblock-notify adds notification center support to tcpblock application firewall.

It has been tested successfully in Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

terminal notifier is required. You can either install it manually or viabrew (brew is the preferred way)

tcpblock should be configured using:

• Enabled
• Log blocked connections
• using "White List"

Check the following screenshot:

There are two ways

Download from thereleases section.

Make sure that you have installed terminal-notifer and you have located the binary. Based on the method you have used to install terminal-notifier (brew, gem or released) the location of the binary may differ. Examples include:

• /Applications/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier
• /usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier

Install it using:

$ unzip tcpblock-notify-0.2.zip$ cd tcpblock-notify-0.2$ ./install-tcpblock-notify.sh "/Applications/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier"copying binary to /home/psebos/.tcpblock-notify ...doneautomating startup ...doneinstallation completed!you can start tcpblock-notify byrebootingorlaunchctl load /home/psebos/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plistthxsakoula

Download from thereleases section. Install it using:

$ terminalnotifier="LOCATION OF THE TERMINAL NOTIFIER BINARY"$ unzip tcpblock-notify-0.2.zip$ cd tcpblock-notify-0.2# copying binary to ${HOME}/.tcpblock-notify ..$ mkdir -p ${HOME}/.tcpblock-notify$ cat tcpblock-notify.sh | sed "s#/usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier#\"${terminalnotifier}\"#" > ${HOME}/.tcpblock-notify/tcpblock-notify.sh$ cp tcpblock-notify.sh ${HOME}/.tcpblock-notify$ chmod 755 ${HOME}/.tcpblock-notify/tcpblock-notify.sh$# loading tcpblock-notify on startup ..$ mkdir -p $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/$ cat com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plist | sed "s#<string>tcpblock-notify.sh</string>#<string>$HOME/.tcpblock-notify/tcpblock-notify.sh</string>#" > ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plist$ chmod 644 ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plist$# start the tcpblock-notify with the commandlaunchctl load ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plist

If used the installer for installation use the uninstaller which is included inside the installation packagereleases section:

$ unzip tcpblock-notify-0.2.zip$ cd tcpblock-notify-0.2$ ./uninstall-tcpblock-notify.sh

$# deleting ${HOME}/.tcpblock-notify ..$ /bin/rm -r ${HOME}/.tcpblock-notify/tcpblock-notify.sh$# stopping ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plist$ launchctl unload ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plist$# deleting ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plist$ /bin/rm -r ${HOME}/Library/LaunchAgents/com.sakoula.tcpblock-notify.plistecho ".done"

when an application will be block you will presented with a notification message:

click on it and you will presented with the local user password in order to add it to the exception list:

The code is very simple. It continuously monitors the syslog (/var/log/system.log) where tcpblock is logging to. If it finds an entry from tcpblock it parses the entry, figures out the blocked application and it used the following command to add it to the exception list:

$ sudo tcpblock -a application_name

Make sure that terminal-notifier works. Locate the binary and run from the command line

$"/Applications/terminal-notifier.app/Contents/MacOS/terminal-notifier" -message "This is a test"or$"/usr/local/bin/terminal-notifier" -message "This is a test"depending on the terminal-notifier binary

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