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[Originally posted on cubeowners forum but no help from there so apologies to anyone who may have read this on another site]
My ISP keeps changing IP address every few days even though they say it should remain steady for a few months at least. I have a DNS2GO account from back inthe day when i used a PC running windows. That had a simple tray prog that sat sending heartbeats to DNS2Go's system and everytime an IP change happened my domain http://scoopz.d2g.com would be updated to point to my new IP.
I've been trying to get DNS2Go to work for ages on my Mac (OS X 10.3) and finally found out they have a perl version available. I downloaded this, set up the files but it failed to run, so i updated to perl 5.8.5 and joy, I can now manually start the script in terminal:
and this will update my IP with DNS2Go's system.
Right all i want to do now is set this to run every 5 minutes. Some investigation and I figure out that i need to add an entry to the crontab to execute this. I used pico to edit the main system crontab:
which looks like this:
and then i added the following line to the bottom:
But it doesn't work.
Any ideas guys & girls?
Whilst running:
in that directory it all works fine, but if i go to another directory and run (what i thought would be exactly the same as running the above):
it now returns the same error i was getting before i updated to perl 5.8.5
My ISP keeps changing IP address every few days even though they say it should remain steady for a few months at least. I have a DNS2GO account from back inthe day when i used a PC running windows. That had a simple tray prog that sat sending heartbeats to DNS2Go's system and everytime an IP change happened my domain http://scoopz.d2g.com would be updated to point to my new IP.
I've been trying to get DNS2Go to work for ages on my Mac (OS X 10.3) and finally found out they have a perl version available. I downloaded this, set up the files but it failed to run, so i updated to perl 5.8.5 and joy, I can now manually start the script in terminal:
Code:
G4Cube:/Library/Dns2go scoopz$ perl online.pl
SuccessRight all i want to do now is set this to run every 5 minutes. Some investigation and I figure out that i need to add an entry to the crontab to execute this. I used pico to edit the main system crontab:
Code:
G4Cube:/Library/Dns2go scoopz$ sudo pico /private/etc/crontab
Code:
# /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute hour * *mday * *month * wday * *who * * command
#
#*/5 * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * root * */usr/libexec/atrun
#
# Run daily/weekly/monthly jobs.
15 * * *3 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * root * *periodic daily
30 * * *4 * * * * * * * * * * * 6 * * * root * *periodic weekly
30 * * *5 * * * 1 * * * * * * * * * * * root * *periodic monthly
Code:
*/5 * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * root * */Library/dns2goperl/online.plAny ideas guys & girls?
Whilst running:
Code:
G4Cube:/Library/Dns2go scoopz$ perl online.pl
Success
Code:
G4Cube:/ scoopz$ perl /Library/Dns2go/online.pl
Undefined subroutine &main::DNS2GoUpdate called at /Library/Dns2go/online.pl line 10.
