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From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
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On Mon, 6 Nov 2017, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> I wrote this sh script today for dynamic dns ip updates.

Why not use the many scripts that already exist do do that? Since you're 
using namecheap:

 | Are there any alternate Dynamic DNS clients?
 | https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/5/11/

> When I use service dynip start command it just hangs there.

Try running it with "set -x" to see where it hangs.

 | https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bourne_Shell_Scripting/Debugging_and_signal_handling

C.
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