<div dir="auto"><div>My goal also involves setting up the same notice on my mothers pc for remote administration. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 16, 2017 12:01 PM, "Jess Bermudes via SGVLUG" <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">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 </div><div class="elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 16, 2017 14:39, "Michael Proctor-Smith via SGVLUG" <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Bryan Pesterfield via SGVLUG <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hello all,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have a script I wrote to monitor my external ip and send me an update via email when it changes (it checks <a href="http://ipv4.icanhazip.com" target="_blank">ipv4.icanhazip.com</a>, 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). <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks in advance,</div><div dir="auto">Bryan Pesterfield </div></div></div>
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