Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:37:33 -0400 From: RDWestSr <rdwestsr@hotpop.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Dynamic Ip Update Advice plz Message-ID: <3D42157D.E6A8A258@hotpop.com>
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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
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