On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:52 -0400, "Brad Tilley" <b...@16systems.com> wrote: > There are ports that do this with more features, but I thought others > might like to do it in base with no added software. I've been using this > script since 4.2 and it works OK: > > #!/bin/ksh > > # Cron this script to run every X minutes. Written for OpenBSD. > > # Get Current IP > lynx -dump http://checkip.dyndns.org:8245/ | awk '{print $4}' | sed > '/^$/d' > ip_new.txt > > # compare new with old > diff ip_new.txt ip_old.txt > > # if different, send update > if [ $? -ne 0 ] > then > #echo "The IP has changed" > ip=$(cat ip_new.txt) > # Following two lines are optional. Log date of change and IP history. > date >> ip_date.txt > cat ip_old.txt >> ip_history.txt > curl --insecure > > "https://user:p...@members.dyndns.org/nic/update?hostname=host.xxx&myip=$ip&wildcard=NOCHG&mx=NOCHG&backmx=NOCHG"; > fi > > # Whether a change has occurred or not, overwrite old with new > cp ip_new.txt ip_old.txt
I was under the impression that curl was in base. My mistake. It must have pulled in as a dependency somewhere as I don't recall explicitly installing it. I understand that lynx can be used to replace curl. Brad
