[ILUG] [OT] Smart Telecom Broadband offer?

[conor.daly at cod.utvinternet.com]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:42:58PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Niall O Broin thought:
> 
> Or you could of course use cron's facilities to run it just when you 
> wanted each month :-)
> 
> Well, I was and I wasn't. I run one smoothwall box, and I try to keep 
> it as close to stock as possible, for my sake and the sake of> else maintaining it. Absolutely the EASIEST way of doing the necessary 
> on that box WOULD be to reboot it once a month, simply because that's a 
> very easy crontab line to write.

That looks like the handiest all right.  Of course, I'm not into rebooting
gratuitously (nor into spelling for that matter) but it's probably
worthwhile.  Then again, since the 'update now' button usually returns a
'config not changed' message, it's possible that the monthly reboot may
not cause an update at the dyndns servers and may not therefore reset
their timeout.  AFAIK, smoothie will detect a change of ip address and
will run an update when that happens.  Maybe I'll need to snag that
address with another machine and do a forced update (as suggested by
Michael Conry) instead.
 
> The alternative is to dig around the smoothwall scripts and see where 
> it updates the dynamic DNS service, and do that via cron on a monthly 
> basis. That's going to take more time to figure out, of course, but 
> it'd be slightly less naff than the monthly reboot :-)

Or that...

Thanks all,

Conor
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Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

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