Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything
On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 06:28:18 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote:
> On 7/31/22 04:50, Curt wrote:
> > On 2022-07-31, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > > > Doesn't it seem from the OP that the daemon doesn't
> > > > start?
> > > I interpret the process list in the original post as showing a
> > > running dyn_updater:
> > >
> > > > ps ax |grep dyn
> > > > 5237 ? Sl 170:43 dyn_updater
> > > > 5269 ? Sl 5:38 /usr/bin/dyn_updater --daemon start
> > > > 719685 pts/2 R+ 0:00 grep dyn
> > You're right. I misread all that somehow. Documentation is
> > infuriatingly sparse, but mentions that the app's ( a *GUI* app) actvity
> > is logged to a file. Maybe the OP (who's disappeared anyway, as they
> > often do) should look there.
>
> I haven't disappeared. We're probably in different time zones and
> have different sleep schedules.
>
> I don't know about the GUI part of dyn_updater. It just site in my
> task bar and doesn't do anything when I click it.
I'm just intrigued by how expensive dyn_updater is to run. Admittedly,
the machine has been up long enough to churn through 719685 processes,
but almost three hours CPU time to tell a daemon to spend five seconds
doing something; is everything OK?
> I expect either dyn_updater or ddclient to be daemons catching any
> change in IP address and sending the change to dyndns.org.
>
> I would be just as happy to have ddclient working. I only have
> dyn_updater because ddclient didn't seem to be working.
Cheers,
David.
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