Before taking that route you might investigate:
http://www.bizland.com/
which will give you a free subdomain.bizland.com with website and e-mail.
Or, if you have your own domain name but use a dynamic IP address you might
check out:
http://www.dyndns.com/
along with:
http://soa.granitecanyon.com/
to have your domain mapped back to your dial-up IP address so you can use
your own server for e-mail, http, etc.
I haven't found the time to get this working for myself, but I belive it can
be done.
Hope this helps,
Bill
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Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2000 3:37 PM
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Subject: [expert] cron question
I am trying to get dynamip (www.dynamip.com) to work with my linux box
and cable modem connection. Dynamip gives you a
"subdomain.dynamip.com" address for $3 buck a month. To get their
service to work with Linux, I will have to use cron to force netscape
to open a specific url every 15 minutes. I am in the process of
putting together some scripts to do just that.
As a test, I did the following.
I made a file called "netscapetab" with the contents:
#Start of netscapetab
#! /bin/sh
netscape -noraise -remote 'openurl(http://www.news.com)'
#End of netscapetab
I did a "chkmod +x netscapetab" to make the script executable. Run
from the shell, this script will find the first open netscape window
and load up the News.com web site.
As a test of cron I modified my crontab as follows
#Start of crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
*/1 * * * * root /usr/bin/netscapetab
# Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line
too.
0 0 * * * root /etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh
#End of crontab
Now /var/log/cron shows /usr/bin/netscapetab running every minute. But my
browser window does not open News.com.
Any ideas.
