Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections

Re:Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknow... by luckman212 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:01AM (#25746219)

I was tired of seeing 7+ Adobe background daemons, launchagents, helpers, brokers, core sync, etc crap that they decided must be running constantly. I made a script that fires every hour and if no Adobe apps are running it just kills all those useless processes. My machine is so much happier now.

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Re:Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknow... by hellojason on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:40AM (#25746683)

Care to share?

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Re:Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknow... by luckman212 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:34PM (#25751301)

Sure. It requires a tiny bit of setup, but I put up a gist[0].

You can customize to your needs/liking, let me know if it works for you...

[0]: https://github.com/luckman212/adobe_kill

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Re:Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknow... by ValentineC on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @11:27AM (#25749061)

This is mine from 2019:

  sudo killall ACCFinderSync “Core Sync” AdobeCRDaemon “Adobe Creative” AdobeIPCBroker node “Adobe Desktop Service” “Adobe Crash Reporter”

I should probably stick it in Automator or something because Adobe's invasion is getting really annoying.

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Re:Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknow... by MiguelHudnandez on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @01:31PM (#25751249)

launchd sounds scary but it is not that hard to get an agent enabled. It's basically a plist file or two in the right place and a command to enable it. You can have launchd call your shell script once per minute.

I used this to good effect once to log the output of a few debug commands to text, commit that to a git repo, and move on. Then I could come back later and see what was going on before an issue happened on that system.

Here's some info on launchd to save you some searching: https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-launchd-run-scripts-on-sc...

Regarding finding the adobe process names, you can filter output of `ps aux` based on application path or name to get a current list process IDs and kill those.

In this particular case, watch out for getting into a launchd fight, where launchd is simultaneously killing adobe processes and also relaunching them because of Adobe's own launchd registrations.

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Re:Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknow... by saagarjha on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:57PM (#25756488)

Speaking of launchd, it would be a much better idea to unload those services rather than just killing them so they don't come back.

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Re:Lulu – Mac open-source firewall that aims to block unknow... by MiguelHudnandez on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:09PM (#25769292)

Indeed. Some component of Adobe's suite will be responsible for re-enabling them, so it's just a balance between actually using the software and disabling the background tasks.

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