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jalu

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Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 140

noip2 in daemons list?

My hope is to have noip2 run as soon as my laptop boots up. This way, if anyone steals my laptop, the IP address of the machine will be updated even if the individual does not log into my account.

Would there be anything wrong with adding noip2 to my daemons list? I know it would not likely cause any technical issues, but am not sure if it is bad practice.

Thanks!

milasch

Member

From: Toronto, ON

Registered: 2009-05-21

Posts: 100

Re: noip2 in daemons list?

I also use noip. If you have noip installed and configured, simply add

DAEMONS=(... noip ...)

to your /etc/rc.conf and it will be loaded on boot.

To start it manually do as root user:

/etc/rc.d/noip start

It's not a bad practice to add services you need in your daemons list, that's why we have it for. Of course, add trusted services there and I don't think noip has any problem.

jalu

Member

Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 140

Re: noip2 in daemons list?

That seems to have worked, thank you! I'm slowly beginning to understand how the daemons list works.

Thanks again!