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Subject: Re: Startup with no-ip
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Olof Andersson <olof.a@home.se> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I have problems getting noip to start automatically at startup. I'm a
> beginner at FreeBSD and Unix and I need help with this. I added some
> info from my system that I hope will be usefull. noip works fine when
> manually started.

[snip[

>              su -m noip -c '/usr/local/bin/noip2' 2> /dev/null > /dev/null

I suspect that you wanted:
              su -m noip -c '/usr/local/bin/noip2' 2>&1 >/dev/null

but I suggest not running the updater as a daemon at all.

I have the dhcp client run it automatically when the address changes,
by creating /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks as follows:

  #!/bin/sh

  updater_prog = /usr/local/bin/noip2 
  if [ x$reason = xREBOOT ]   || 	\
     [ x$old_ip_address = x ] || 	\
     [ x$old_ip_address != x$new_ip_address ]; then
      if [ -x $updater_prog ]; then 
          ${updater_prog} -i "$new_ip_address"
      else
          logger "dhclient-exit-hooks cannot find updater $updater_prog"
      fi
  fi