In <[🔎] 1AF890A5-5BF9-46C9-8C4B-B709170DD545@halblog.com>, Hal Vaughan wrote: >I've been reading the man pages for dhclient, but I'm stuck with one key >question I've missed. > >I have an exit script set up to notify me of the IP address of a particular >system (on a LAN) whenever the IP address changes. > >I know whenever dhclient runs, it runs the exit scripts. The one issue I'm >not clear of is whether the exit scripts will be run any time the IP >address changes, like when a lease expires. I know it'll run at reboot or >if networking is restarted, but will the exit scripts be run when the IP >address is changed by the DHCP? If it's not, is there any program that >runs under those conditions? I can't answer the specific question, but I knows that there are DynDNS clients in Debian that are capable of notifying a remote system whenever the local system's IP changes. One of these clients should be able to "speak" a "dialect" you can process. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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