[ale] gateway external ip

[David S. Jackson]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:26:30AM -0400 Robert Coggins <ALE at CogginsNet.com> wrote:
> Actually I have found a solution.  I wrote an ugly script to get my ip
> address and email it to myself.  Right now I have it checking everyhour
> using cron and emailing me the ip.  Today during lunch break I am going to
> make it where it will not email unless the ip has changed from the last time
> it changed.  If anyone is interested I will post it.  However, I stress this
> is something really ugly.  I just through a bunch of stuff into a shell
> script.  But hey!  It works!

So what did you wind up going with?

It might be harder to find something as simple as :

MYIP="whatever your current IP is"  # remove after 1st run

w3m http://www.checkip.net -dump | grep "Current IP Address" | sed 's/^.*: //g' | read MYIP_NOW && if [ "$MYIP_NOW" != "$MYIP" ]; then mail -s "IP Change" < `w3m http://www.checkip.net -dump -T text/html ` you at locahost ; fi


MYIP=MYIP_NOW


Lynx has similar options I'm sure.  I just prefer w3m.  You will
have to fiddle with your w3m/lynx switches, since the page gives
w3m an "error 63", whatever that is.


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