[lug] Auto FTP file up on PPP connection

[Holshouser, David]

Instead of using the free qwest page and doing some work around with a
redirect page, I highly recommend using some kind of dynamic dns server.
There are many good free ones and you can have a name that sounds (mostly)
cool, mylastname.dyndns.org or somesuch. I pay $20/yr for a full domain
name, mylastname.com, and have had 100% reliability.

These systems supply executables, mostly perl scripts, which will maintain
your IP in their tables without all this extra effort you are about to put
out.

Below is a list (and ratings) of dns suppliers. Embedded within the list are
markings for the free ones and the dynamic ones.
http://dns.highsynth.com/
http://dns.highsynth.com/index-r.shtml

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark (Andy) Jolley [mailto:majolley at qwest.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 9:28 PM
> To: BLUG Mail Serv
> Subject: Re: [lug] Auto FTP file up on PPP connection
> 
> 
> Well, here's the deal...
> I currently have my linux box doing IPChains and MASQ to 
> share my dialup, no
> DSL, no Cable Modem, and after seeing some of the stuff here, 
> I'm not to
> sure of Sprint (WAY out east, I see Pena Blvd out my rear 
> window, and my
> house is kinda small).
> Anyway... I want to play with Apache.  I'm very familiar with 
> the M$ stuff
> because of work, and I want to play with something else at 
> home.  So what I
> want to do is upload an HTML page to my free qwest area that 
> redirects to my
> apache box at home.  Since it's a dialup, my IP could change 
> each time.  So
> with the ip-up.local I was hoping to call my create file 
> script  that greps
> the ip address out of ifconfig (which works) then FTP it up 
> to my qwest.net
> home page area.  This way I can play and show what I've done 
> to others for
> suggestions (as long as I'm dialed in), without having to let 
> people know my
> IP address everytime, just send them to my free area from qwest.
> 
> when I've created my ip-up.local file, and placed it in the /etc/ppp
> directory, done a chmod 755 on it, and added the line to call 
> the script
> that creates my file, the script that creates the file does 
> not seem to run.
> I know the create file script works, I can run it independantly.
> 
> 
> "Mark (Andy) Jolley" wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get my dialup box to auto FTP a file to a 
> server once the
> PPP
> > connection is up, so I actually have two questions (I'm on 
> Red hat 7.0):
> > 1) where do I add my script to make my scripts kick off 
> upon a successful
> > dialup and logon?  I looked at my ppp-up script in the 
> /etc/ppp directory,
> > but it said to use a ppp-up.local.  I couldn't find one, so 
> I made one
> with
> 
> That should be /etc/ppp/ip-up.local, and yes, it needs to be 
> executable.  I
> use
> it to call out to a time server (Mom's cable-modem-connected 
> Linux box) when
> my
> server dials up, so I know it will always have a pretty 
> accurate clock.
> 
> Calvin
> 
> > 2) how do I automate the ftp process.  I'm more familiar 
> with the M$ world
> > and I can call a script with ftp -s filename to automate an 
> FTP process,
> how
> > do I do this with Linux, and who is the user that it will run under?
> 
> Hmmm ... by default, it would be the root user.
> 
> I'm curious - what do you want it to do via FTP?  Download 
> new files?  You
> can
> do that with ncftpget, if you have that installed on your Linux box.
> 
> Calvin
> 
> 
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