Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:17:35 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Matt Gostick <matt@virtualservice.com> Cc: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mailing IP changes Message-ID: <20000718231735.D677@pool1162.cvx20-bradley.dialup.e> In-Reply-To: <3974B13A.430C7298@virtualservice.com>; from matt@virtualservice.com on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:34:18PM -0400 References: <3974A0A5.F4632A9A@planetwe.com> <3974B13A.430C7298@virtualservice.com>
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:34:18PM -0400, Matt Gostick wrote: > Drew Sanford wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I'd like to know if anyone has a good way of emailing a machines IP > > address to themselves when the machine (connected via PPP) has to > > reconnect and is assigned a new IP. What is the most sensible way to do > > this? > > I wrote a C program a while ago that retrieved the ip of the tun > device. I quoted it below. When compiled just run it with `get_ip > tun0` or whatever your tun device is. It doesn't work for normal > interfaces.. I'm not quite sure why... but it does what I need it to and > I left it at that :) To get it to mail you ... I believe a file in > /etc/ppp can contain a list scripts that you want run when a connection > is established. Just change the print below to a system call to > sendmail or whatever and pop it in there. `man ppp` to find out what > the file is called. I think ppp.linkup or something like that. Good > luck. [snip] This all seems pretty complicated. A line like, shell echo MYADDR | mail whoever@machine.wherever.org In ppp.linkup should do it, no? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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