Re: How do I schedule a task to be done hourly.



On Tue, 30 May 2006 08:59:40 +0000, Andrew Schulman wrote:

The computer at work has a dynamic IP address. Sometimes I'd like to be
able to access it remotely. I have script that gets the IP address and
sends it to a web server I can access any time and retrieve it. I'd
like to have the script run hourly but cron only seems to go to daily.

That's not a bad solution, but you might consider an alternative: give
your host a hostname at http://www.dyndns.com (a free service), and use an
update client to call in to dyndns.org whenever the IP address changes. I
use ipcheck, but there are lots of update clients-- dyndns.com has a list
of compliant ones.

I've heard of such things but the host is behind a firewall/router. I
found it easer to go to whatismyip.com. The perl script took me about an
hour.
.



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