[Discuss] Network manager fun

Derek Martin invalid at pizzashack.org
Thu Sep 3 18:57:15 EDT 2020


On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 12:40:10PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> I do some things that usually aren't done on DHCP hosts, so I needed to
> know when my IP address changed or if my ISP updated their DNS servers
> provided via DHCP.  Should be a simple cron job right?
> [...] 
> So my ham-fisted cron job looks like this [...]
> 
> I looked a bit to see if NetworkManager had some built-in notification
> mechanisms, but didn't see any.  If someone knows a better way I'd love
> to hear it.

Define "better"--it's very subjective...  How would you ideally want
this to work?

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