Quick script I knocked up to update dynamic dns record at freedns.afraid.org, querying the router for its IP address. Uses expect to login via telnet to the router and curl to GET the http update url.
#!/bin/bash
# Siemens SE 587 freedns update script
# Jonathan Cutting mcmlxxii.co.uk
# 20/9/2009
# Config
router_login=”your_login_name”
router_password=”your_login_password”
router_address=”192.168.1.1″
afraid_url=”your_dynamic_dns_url”
afraid_update_url=”http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?YOUR_UPDATE_CODE”
# End config
dns_record=$(dig +short $afraid_url)
ip_address=$(expect -c ”
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There’s a little program available for windows that lets you turn your browser into a screensaver, looping through various web content. However, there are 2 things wrong with it. Firstly it costs money. Secondly it doesn’t run on linux.
So what? – we have bash – and after a bit of digging around this morning and [...]
I followed a submission to reddit the other day highlighting a few choice plugins for gedit, as I am fond of using the default GNOME text editor. One plugin in particular caught my eye, the document words autocompletion plugin, written by Perriman. Retyping my inventive variable names (not to mention the oft flowery default php [...]
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I’ve been spending a bit of time getting to know PHP classes over the Christmas holiday, and I’ve written a couple to test out my knowledge.
The first is an image uploading class, which checks for various problems with files prior to moving them to a destination directory. It checks:
that the file actually exists
the size to [...]
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There are some highly entertaining examples on the net of command line program output, but it’s great when you’re doing some system maintenance in Linux on your own machine and a gem unexpectedly crops up:
:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
[sudo] password:
* Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot
Warning: Last died with error (see error log for more information): [...]
EDIT – Please note that this post only refers to the 64 bit version of Ubuntu.
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If you’ve used the Ralink RT73 chipset under Ubuntu for any length of time, you’ll know that the default drivers aren’t yet perfect (some supporting evidence). Some may have had more success, but in my experience they drop out regularly and transfer rates are pretty mediocre. The modules used are the rt2×00usb and rt73usb. These [...]