Very nice, but Karthik will need to have webmail with an a password he does not 
care about to read the changes.  It's a chicken and egg problem at that point.  
=:>

On 2003.10.14 11:05 Adam J. Melancon wrote:
> I had a dynamic dns service at one time, but now I use a script to tell me 
> if my ip has changed.  It runs about ever 5 minutes using cron.
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# cat checkip.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> # I have this program running in /etc/crontab with the following 
> configuration:
> # *       *       *       *       *       root    /usr/local/bin/newip
> #
> date=`date`
> 
> ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet " | cut -f12 -d" " > /usr/local/bin/.newip
> 
> if diff /usr/local/bin/.newip /usr/local/bin/.currentip;
> then
> 
>           exit 0;
> 
> else
>          cat /usr/local/bin/.newip > /usr/local/bin/.currentip;
>          cat /usr/local/bin/.currentip > /usr/local/bin/.report
>          date >> /usr/local/bin/.report
>          mail -s "New IP  on $date"[EMAIL PROTECTED] < 
> /usr/local/bin/.report;
>          echo "different ip"
>          rm -f /usr/local/bin/.report
>          exit 0
> fi
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]#
> 
> 
> 
> Adam J. Melancon
> 
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