Mikkel wrote: >> 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 ...) >> > You could download ddclient and change the config to mail all > messages to you. Thanks, I'll look at that. But would that give me the remote IP address? > Or you could modify the pearl script to do what you > want. Unfortunately, Perl seems temporarily out of action after upgrading to CentOS-5.4 . (There were a large number of warnings about Perl during the upgrade.) But I'm sure this will be sorted out in the next day or so. -- 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
