Re: cron.hourly doesn't run

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

* Paul Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [030510 01:56]:
> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:59:45AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > That's *not* a problem, is it ??
> 
> Nope.  But if you're using dhclient, you might find it better to work
> it into /etc/dhclient-script, in which it'll only run when the DHCP
> lease is renewed, which will save you and dyndns some processor time
> and bandwidth.
> 
> Of course, if you want updating to just work without thinking about
> it, go get ddclient instead of ipcheck.  It runs as a daemon.  It
> checks to make sure dyndns's idea of your IP is the same as what it
> really is when it first starts, after that it just sleeps and wakes up
> if your IP changes to update dyndns.

I do need a client that supports "broadband" routers, specifically my
Linksys BEFSR41. I see that 'ddclient' does.

On the unix page, there's only two listed that do: ddclient and ipcheck.

Hall