Verizon DSL?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> writes:

> What I plan to do is run a cron script that periodically checks the ip
> address from ifconfig. When the address changes, the script will email the
> new address to a mailbox outside my home network.

Why not just key off the DHCP scripts?  Most DHCP implementations will
run a script when the DHCP state changes; you can key off of that to
email yourself.  For example, pump lets you set a script in
/etc/pump.conf (script = /path/to/XXX).  man pump for more info.
Dhcpcd also provides a script, as does dhclient.

-derek
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