"Brad Doster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a client running RH 6.2 as a DSL router. The DSL address is dynamic,
> so to keep tabs on the system, I have a cron script that sends me its
> ifconfig once per hour. I'm trying to get mail or elm to use a subject line
> like...
>
> 001209_1315-200.200.200.200
>
> ...where 001209 is the date sent, 1315 is time sent and 200.200.200.200 is
> the current IP address of the system. The goal is to be able to sort by
> subject so that I can easily check that the messages were sent when they
> were intended to be.
Another approach might be a system I used for a while to post my
address, time and a message on a remote webpage so my son could just
hit the URL to see my machines current address or other information
when he needed to ssh to my machine from across the state.
If you have httpd running on that machine you wouldn't need to mail it
at all. You could use a script to generate a web page hourly with the
new information appended to the list so you could readily see what was
happening. Probably wouldn't want a webserver on a router though.
Current wisdom is to use perl for stuff like that, but I don't know
much perl so I use the older sed and awk tools. The above project
would be duck soup for them.
Not a real difficult project but a good learning tool.
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