Am 04.01.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Fred n Sandy:
As I read it, the client phones home every 30 minutes and the server gets the IP info from that, so the client is independent of any address changes. It is really a dumb process... brute force, if you will, but it works. Usually. Until it mysteriously quits. Yes, I could write a script to restart the job and cron it but that is a bandaid. If there is some fundamental f.u. going on I'd like to discover it. Logging has been no help.
Ok, some rough outline of the remote help process: You supply us with reliable information about your system, program versions, possibly links to where you got unusual tools (like the noip2 executable) and we rise our voices when we spot something. Remote help isn't telepathy. If you want us to help you, you need to tell us everything you know and everything which might be related. Which isn't easy - usually, when someone reaches out for help, they are frustrated. Not an idea state of mind to think about everything that some unknown person on the other side of the globe might need to know to help you. With that out of the way, to keep a process alive, there are several ways which are better than cron. If you have a Linux system with the old init system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Init), you should look at daemonize (http://linux.die.net/man/1/daemonize). If you have a more modern startup system like systemd (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd), then they have config files where you can say "start this when this happend and restart it when it exist and make sure it stays alive but only restart it 10 times if it terminates after 10 seconds". If you know old System V init scripts, this explains how to convert the information for systemd: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd-for-admins-3.html Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org