Hi, I need a shell script to check a dynamic ip(from cable company), it will send the ip to my email if the ip changes. The Solaris box is behind the router with a static ip (internal), the router connected with a cable modem for internet connection. The problem is the cable company assigned you a dynamic ip, and it changes sometime. When that happens, I can't not access my Solaris box outside my home. On the local box I can know my current external ip through the http://checkip.dyndns.org/. How can I write that in a script to send the ip to my email if it changes? I'm using Bourne shell.

http://www.computing.net/solaris/wwwboard/forum/4287.html NEWIP=`lynx --dump http://checkip.dyndns.org` if [ `cat iplogfile` != "$NEWIP" ] ; then echo "My new IP address is $NEWIP" | mail user@domain.com echo $NEWIP > iplogfile fi

Thanks so much for your help. I copied the script(only change is the email address) to my solaris box and saved as ipcheck. I tried to run it, and following is the output. # ./ipcheck ./ipcheck: lynx: not found ./ipcheck: syntax error at line 3: `then' unexpected # Please let me know if there is anything need to be fixed. Thanks. -wolf

I dont think Solaris come with lynx installed, you should be able to download it from http://www.sunfreeware.com/

Thanks for your help. I installed lynx and ran script. Following is the output. Please let me know any changes needed. Thanks again. # ./ckip ld.so.1: lynx: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory ./ckip: NEWIP: not found ./ckip: syntax error at line 2: `|' unexpected