Re: [Astlinux-users] ddclient on Astlinux 1.3.3 ( and some earlier? )

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

Hi John,

First, let's see if your file editing has caused issues, does this output anything ?
--
show-union | grep ddclient
--

What dynamic DNS service are you using ?

Using sanitized passwords and such, what do you think your /etc/ddclient.conf should look like ?

Lonnie



> On Jun 2, 2018, at 3:45 PM, John Novack SCII_U <jn...@co...> wrote:
> 
> I have been attempting to get ddclient working on the later versions and it seems that the "user defined" input to the GUI is not working properly
> Because of the free service we use none of the canned defined services cannot be used
> Input the data and then reboot, and no evidence that ddclient runs. The input information is correct in gui.network.conf, but nothing in /var/log/messages there was an attempt.
> This USED to work in prehistoric times ( 1.4.44 ) and probably some later ones
> In order to get it to work, I had to do several things  to please ddclient that generally are not correct ( or dangerous? )
> Manually create the file in /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf
> manual create directory /var/cache/ddclient
> 
> This does persist a reboot, but I am sure there is a better/proper way
> Something in the ddclient script not revised for AstLinux?
> Something I am not doing correctly?
> 
> 
> John Novack
> 
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