[SGVLUG] Cron question

[Bryan Pesterfield via SGVLUG]

My goal also involves setting up the same notice on my mothers pc for
remote administration.

My IP has actually only changed every few years, whenever I change ISPs (so
basically never without my own doing), but I am not so sure about my
mothers, since it is usually off and in need of a router. I assume her IP
changed within a week of installing Ubuntu, because I haven't been back in
since then. I am making a trip to load the script there this weekend.

I have a couple domains with namecheap, but I never bothered looking at
their perks. I was looking for a diy solution since I remembered reading
that the free services all started charging.

Thank you guys for the advice. I will set up an account for the script and
look into making my router do the work with namecheap. It is a Cisco RV130;
I wanted my WAP to be seperate and a new router without it is getting
harder to find.


On May 16, 2017 12:01 PM, "Jess Bermudes via SGVLUG" <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
wrote:

Namecheap and probably other domain registrars provide ddns for you with
your purchase, so then if you have a router with openwrt or something you
can set it up pretty easily

On May 16, 2017 14:39, "Michael Proctor-Smith via SGVLUG" <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
wrote:

> If you don't want to do it as root, or your normal account do it. Then
> create a new user to do it, don't reuse an existing system account. With
> cron jobs the place you normal fail is that from cron you don't have normal
> user path stuff added as it is not a login shell.
>
> But in seem like you are solving a solved problem that we have all gone
> the road of. That being wanting to access your network remotely and having
> a dynamic ip address. So if I may suggest looking into one of the free
> dynamic dns services (DDNS) and save yourself the trouble of having to
> check email to find your home ip address. Many home routers will
> automatically update DDNS when there ip address changes.
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Bryan Pesterfield via SGVLUG <
> sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have a script I wrote to monitor my external ip and send me an update
>> via email when it changes (it checks ipv4.icanhazip.com, so no parsing
>> necessary). While the books and webpages I have looked at so far make it
>> appear easy to set up a cron job, I am unsure of what user should be used
>> to run the job (since nothing I looked at specified what accounts should be
>> used, they appear to be indifferent to it).
>>
>> It didn't seem very secure to have root or myself (aka a regular user)
>> run the job, so I am hesitating on setting it up until I know what account
>> should be used to run it. Do I have a system account do it, or do I set up
>> an unique account just for it? What's the best way to do this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Bryan Pesterfield
>>
>
>
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