Re: How do I schedule a task to be done hourly.
- From: Andrew Schulman <andrex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:52:15 GMT
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.
OK, but the update clients usually speak HTTP, which is almost certainly
allowed through your firewall.
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