20/04/00 11:11:44 AM Guys I need a hand.. and I'm in a bit of a hurry for it.. :-/ I've just found out I'm going to be out of town for 5 days by the end of today and what I want is to find out what my servers IP addy is while i'm away, by getting it to e-mail a copy of a ifconfig report to my e-mail addy [EMAIL PROTECTED] The way I thought I could do it is by doing this in my crontab : # auto mail test * */5 * * * ifconfig > /opt/currentip * */6 * * * echo /opt/currentip |mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] But it doesn't work :-( I want it to do an ifconfig every 5 hours and dump it into the file /opt/currentip then an hour after that I want it to email the contents of that file so I may access my server remotely any time I want... (its a dialup 56k modem, no static addy but nearly 24/7 connection) I have 4 hours left to get this working.. Many thanks to any that can help me out and MUCH KUDOS! to the ones that can make it work.. :-) Thanks for your time ppls.. Marcus ================Sig Start================== Motto for the I.T. Industry: BIGGER, <i>faster</i>, <b>more</b>, <u>NOW!</u> Thought for the future: If you thought the Y2k Bug was a media frenzie, just you wait till the IPv6 issue is announced... ================Sig Stop================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
