Jim Crumley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I pretty much copied my setup from > http://www.math.jhu.edu/~martind/mybox.html . > I think Daniel Martin still reads this list. He also > has a link to the Dynamic IP Hacks Mini-HOWTO, > which has more suggestions.
Oh my. I'd hate to think I'm an authority. I have something like this set up - I have a voice modem, and use vgetty (in the mgetty-voice package). I've modified some of the scripts that came with it (but not much; they were pretty trivial modifications) so that I can call my machine from anywhere, enter *, a secret code, and # and my machine will dial in. (A different code lets me check my messages - my voice modem is my answering machine) That's not documented on the page mentioned above, (I can send you details, but using xringd may well be easier) but how to have a page automatically updated is; although, there's a way that I think is better, which I used on my girlfriend's machine since her ISP didn't allow her shell access to set up a .forward file. Basically, in your /etc/ppp/ip-up script (for bo, aka Debian 1.3.x) or in some file in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ (for hamm, aka Debian 2.0 - you'd probably be best off putting this in a new file, something like /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local_updatepage) put the following: m4 -Dipaddr=$PPP_LOCAL > /tmp/newip.html <<EOD <HTML><HEAD>New ip address ipaddr</HEAD> <BODY><H1>New address is: ipaddr</H1> <P>New address ipaddr obtained on syscmd(date)</P></BODY></HTML> EOD HOME=/root ftp my.webspace.provider <<EOD send /tmp/newip.html public_html/newip.html EOD (In bo, use $4 instead of $PPP_LOCAL in the top line) Then, in /root you need to create a .netrc file giving your username and password for whatever machine you're putting this webpage on. The syntax is: machine my.webspace.provider login myusername password mypassword Then, remember to set all the permissions correctly: chmod 0600 /root/.netrc chmod a+rx /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/local_updatepage # or whatever # Remember, use /etc/ppp/ip-up on bo.