Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:52:53 +0200 From: Olof Andersson <olof.a@home.se> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Startup with no-ip Message-ID: <10910722-F86B-11D8-A246-0003930BAE38@home.se> In-Reply-To: <441xht1ui1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <65BA0DD3-F79D-11D8-A246-0003930BAE38@home.se> <441xht1ui1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Good suggestion. I have created the file /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks but
do I need to do something else to get the noip to run when the
ip-address changes? I'm a beginner so i could really need some help
with the details.
Thanks in advance
/Olof Andersson
>
>
> 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
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