[Gllug] Cygwin problems or X problems?

[Ian Norton]

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 21:04, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 15:39, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 August 2004 13:23, Jason wrote:
> > > Just a thought, and I'm probably wrong, but if your sending email from the
> > > machine you want to connect to, wont the message headers of your emails
> > > have to ip address of the machine in them? e.g.
> > >
> > > 	81-1-74-104.homechoice.co.uk (HELO landslide.localdomain)(81.1.74.104)
> > >
> > I know the IP address - that is how i logged in. It is the post-reboot address 
> > I don't know.
> 
> At the risk of stating the obvious, can't you just cron it to mail you
> the new IP after a reboot?
> 
> @reboot root /sbin/ifconfig
> 
> ... should be all you need if root's mail goes somewhere you can get to.
> Otherwise you might have to pipe it to sendmail or something, but it
> should still be straightforward.
> 
> Mike.

sounds like a job for ddclient and dyndns.org, they will give you the
machine's current IP, it really does work very very well

Ian
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