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munkoil

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From: Gothenburg, Sweden

Registered: 2010-05-03

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] Can't get ddclient working

Hi,

I currently have trouble with configuring ddclient. I have edited the /etc/conf.d/ddclient to the following

## ddclient configuration file
daemon=600
# check every 600 seconds
syslog=yes
# log update msgs to syslog
mail-failure=xxxx # Mail failed updates to user
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
# record PID in file.
## Detect IP with our CheckIP server
use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com/, web-skip='IP Address'
## DynDNS username and password here
login=xxxx
password=xxxx
## Default options
protocol=dyndns2
server=members.dyndns.org
## Dynamic DNS hosts
xxxx.dyndns.org

When i try to start the daemon i get the following output

>sudo /etc/rc.d/ddclient start
/etc/conf.d/ddclient: line 6: mail-failure=xxxx: command not found
/etc/conf.d/ddclient: line 10: web-skip=IP Address: command not found
/etc/conf.d/ddclient: line 18: xxxx.dyndns.org: command not found
:: Starting ddclient                                                     [FAIL]

Anyone know how to configure ddclient with dyndns?

Last edited by munkoil (2010-09-26 12:50:51)

hexanol

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From: Canaduh

Registered: 2009-08-04

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ddclient working

Indeed, you are not editing the right file. You must edit /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf and not /etc/conf.d/ddclient (well, you can edit it too, but this is where you add extra args to be passed to the daemon when you start it via the script in /etc/rc.d).

For example, these are my files:
/etc/conf.d/ddclient

# Parameters passed to ddclient
#EXTRA_ARGS="-debug -verbose"
EXTRA_ARGS=""

/etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf

## ddclient configuration file
daemon=1500                 # check every 25 minutes
syslog=yes                  # log update msgs to syslog
mail-failure=root           # Mail failed updates to user
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid   # record PID in file.
ssl=yes                     # use ssl support
cache=/var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache   # cache file

#use=web, web=checkip.dyndns.com/, web-skip='IP Address'
use=cmd, cmd=/usr/local/bin/pubip

## DynDNS username and password here
login=my_login
password=my_password

## Default options
protocol=dyndns2
server=members.dyndns.org
wildcard=no

## Dynamic DNS hosts
my-host-name.dyndns.org

Your 'use' line will be different since I myself wrote a 2 line script to extract the IP address on the web page of my router.

munkoil

Member

From: Gothenburg, Sweden

Registered: 2010-05-03

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ddclient working

Thank you! This solved my problem. I was misled by the message I got when installing the package. It said that if i wanted ddclient to be run as a daemon i should edit /etc/conf.d/ddclient

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: [SOLVED] Can't get ddclient working

It said...

No, this is what it says.