From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 20:40:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0D037B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snickers.hotpop.com (snickers.hotpop.com [204.57.55.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9B2743E4A for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:40:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdwestsr@hotpop.com) Received: from hotpop.com (kubrick.hotpop.com [204.57.55.16]) by snickers.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id CFA9476F3F for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 03:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hotpop.com (66-191-53-230.chartersc.net [66.191.53.230]) by smtp-1.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967C32F8146 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 03:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <3D42157D.E6A8A258@hotpop.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:37:33 -0400 From: RDWestSr Organization: Webdesign X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Dynamic Ip Update Advice plz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi guys, i've been searching and trying to get a dynamic ip updater working... i got ddclient working but i really don't understand some of it... it says set this up for cron ###################################################################### ## ddclient is an IP address updater for www.dyndns.org ## $Header: /home/paul/src/ddclient/RCS/sample-etc_cron.d_ddclient,v 1.7 2001/04/21 23:06:43 root Exp $ ###################################################################### ## minute 0-59 ## hour 0-23 ## day of month 1-31 ## month 1-12 (or names, see below) ## day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) ###################################################################### ## force an update twice a month ## 30 23 1,15 * * root /root/bin/ddclient -daemon=0 -syslog -quiet -force ###################################################################### ## retry failed updates every hour (only if you are not using daemon-mode) ## ##0 * * * * root /usr/sbin/ddclient -daemon=0 -syslog -quiet retry ########################################################## i can only find crontab in /etc do i add this to crontab ? # force an update twice a month 30 23 1,15 * * root /root/bin/ddclient -daemon=0 -syslog -quiet -force tx guys RDWestSr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message