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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 20:30:43 -0500
From: Richard Miles <richard.k.miles@...glemail.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Two questions (or feature suggestion) about JTR usage.

Hi Rich,

Thanks, I was looking more for a solution, the workaround is not what I was
looking for. Anyway, the option pointed by magnum is exactly what I wanted.

--max-run-time=SECONDS

Thanks

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Rich Rumble <richrumble@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Richard Miles
> <richard.k.miles@...glemail.com> wrote:
> > b) I would like to execute my incremental tests always during 8 hours,
> > nothing more and nothing less. There is a workaround to do it? As
> described
> > above, should be nice to have a option to define for how long JTR will be
> > running, example:
> I believe you can use cron or even a script that uses "at" and "sleep"
> then kill.
>
> john --i --format=netntlm passes.txt
> sleep 8h
> kill $! 2>/dev/null && echo "JtR Killed"
> Something like that I believe, as far as I can tell there is no way to
> do it using JtR itself. Also this will start over each time, you
> should use a session or restore the default on (john.rec) if you want
> to keep cracking and not start over each time.
>
> john --i --format=netntlm passes.txt --session=ntlm-session
> sleep 8h
> kill $! 2>/dev/null && echo "JtR Killed"
> sleep 16h
> john --restore=ntlm-session
>
> That, if the script is allowed to run uninterrupted, will sleep for 16
> hours and begin where it left off. But if that script starts over,
> it's going to wipe out the progress for that session, might be good to
> do some if exist's ntlm-session.rec then --restore...
> -rich
>

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