Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:31:06 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Frank Griffith" <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailling my Dynamic IP to myself Message-ID: <199809221031.LAA21386@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Sep 1998 20:28:16 CDT." <000301bde435$f2781ec0$0200a8c0@fast1.dfw.com>
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> Thanks everyone for the cool answers on how to
> get the dynamic IP my ISP assigns me mailed to
> myself. I can at least mail the IP manually. I really
> would like to have this done automatically when
> I'm away from the machine. Several suggestions
> came in on using ppp.linkup, which seems the
> obvious choice. So I followed one guys advice and
> added this line to my /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup file under the
> MYADDR: section
>
> !bg ifconfig tun0 | mail -s "IP Address" my_mail@my_domain.com
>
> This did not work. Can anyone tell me why or suggest
> something that will?
Ppp doesn't treat the ``|'' specially. Get the latest ppp and use
!bg sh -c "mail -s \"interface: INTERFACE; address: MYADDR\" my_mail@my_domain.com </dev/null"
If you don't want to upgrade, do something like
!bg /etc/ppp/myscript INTERFACE MYADDR
where myscript reads:
#! /bin/sh
mail -s "interface: $1; address: $2" my_mail@my_domain.com </dev/null
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
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