Ed Greshko wrote: >> I had a little program which I ran each day >> as a cron job to mail me the IP address of a machine >> in a different country. .. >> In any case, the program has ceased to work >> because the site heliohost seems to have gone off-line. >> >> I wonder if anyone knows of an alternative site >> which I could substitute? >> Or an alternative program? > On the other hand, I did another thing once upon a time....but simply > used a shell script and the output from ifconfig with a bit of grepping > and cutting. ifconfig only seems to give the local 192.168.*.* address. Is there some way of getting it to tell the true IP address? (The remote machine is attached to an ADSL modem. I can get the IP address by accessing the modem, but I am not sure how I could automate this. I guess I could use lynx, and try to abstract the address ...) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
