Show HN: Kill_little_snitch.sh

2 points by smashah 5mo ago ↗ HN

Hi HN, I really love the mac network monitoring tool "Little Snitch" (https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html) (not an ad) but it does this really stupid and annoying thing where it wont just let me kill the process when i'm trying to isolate network/perf issues on my laptop and there's no info online about how to just end the process while also not uninstalling it so I thought it's worth sharing with the wider community since I know this tool is quite popular.

Here is the gist:

https://gist.github.com/smashah/0459d9e095e24c93c6c59226d07c...

(the corresponding resurrection script gist is in the comments)

Thanks!

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unsnap_biceps 5mo ago ↗

The "right" way to toggle Little Snitch is to toggle the filter. If you have the Little Snitch menu bar active, click on it and the icon in the very top right is "Filter". Click on it and it unloads the filter from the networking stack, click on it again to re-add the filter to the network stack.

smashah 5mo ago ↗

As the owner of the computer I should be able to kill any process I want for any reason. Not be confined into just toggling it on/off. A bit strange to assume that I went all this way to create the script but not know about the built-in toggle.