Mikkel wrote:
> ifconfig only seems to give the local 192.168.*.* address.
> Is there some way of getting it to tell the true IP address?
>
> (The remote machine is attached to an ADSL modem.
> I can get the IP address by accessing the modem,
> but I am not sure how I could automate this.
> I guess I could use lynx, and try to abstract the address ...)
>
You could download ddclient and change the config to mail all
messages to you.
Thanks, I'll look at that.
But would that give me the remote IP address?
Or you could modify the pearl script to do what you
want.
Unfortunately, Perl seems temporarily out of action
after upgrading to CentOS-5.4 .
(There were a large number of warnings about Perl during the upgrade.)
But I'm sure this will be sorted out in the next day or so.
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