Im trying to write a script or a prog (which ever will do the job) that:

1) Will get my networks external ip address ( the IP that my isp is giving me for the time being).

2) mail or somehoe transport the ip address to possibly an email account.


Im doing this in becuase I need to know my IP address to run SSH/FTP conrtol from another network and the network inquestion has a dynamic WAN (internet) IP address. Were in the address is changed periodically be the ISP for some reason.



If this just isnt possible. Id like to know how I cn set it up to take a queue from a hyperlink on a website which will be strapped to the machine in question. Do you understand? If so please help me!

look on the forum on this website for this. They have loads of scripts for it if you search for it

www.linuxformat.co.uk

Alex

I think something like

/sbin/ifconfig > tmpfile
mail user@far.away.dom < tmpfile

should work?
--Sarin

/sbin/ifconfig | mail foo@bah.com -s "my ip is...."

Regards

If you want to strip just IP from all the goop ifconfig offers
use this as a line in your script:
just substitute ppp0 to correct interface - eth0, etc if you are not on dila-up or PPPoE DSL connection

now... how am i gonna get this to start on boot? Should I just make it a seperate file and have rc.inet2 load it on boot?

Just add it to rc.local. It starts after all other boot scripts and that's what you want, I think.

now... how am I going to for sure know that it will email to a non LAN machines email address? Lets say that I wanted to have it send the email containing the current IP address to brian@hotmail.com , how would I make sure that it does this?

Also, Id like to have the message time stamped in the email. Example message:

***Wolf88 Linux Server IP address update***
Current IP address at (the time it is) : blah.blah.blah.blah


And then send it to the desired address. How whould I get it to do that?

How about including echo statement in the script
echo "Current time is `date`"
so the whole thing can be a one liner

#!/bin/sh
echo "IP for `hostname` is ` /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e s/.*://` current time `date`"

and does that include the mail to bripage@myemail.com function? If not, were does that come in? and will the machine do this automatically?

IMO you better execute the script from /etc/ppp/ip-up, because this script gets run each time the connection is established so it's the easiest way to be sure a) you got the nfo and b) it can be sent.

To snag Neo77777's work you would do
echo "IP for `hostname` is ` /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e s/.*://` current time `date`" | mail -s "<insert subject here>" <insert email address here>

or like your example
echo "." | mail -s "***Wolf88 Linux Server IP:$(/sbin/ifconfig ppp0 | grep 'inet addr' | awk '{print $2}' | sed -e s/.*://) date:$(date +%m-%d-%y)***" <insert email address here>

*note the echo "." just keeps it from saying it's having an empty message body. If you get additional commandline crud just tack "2>&1 >/dev/null" (w/o quotes) onto the end.

Ok now... I get were were goin with this. But, theres a problem. If Ihave it giving my the linux machines IP address, itll never change and always be 192.168.1.103 . I want to know how, or if at all possible, that I can get a hold of the external (the IP address the internet will see my network as having, usuall something like 64.173.128.105 or somtin) and then do the email thing to it.

run ifconfig to find what interface gets assigned external IP, then just in the IP command substitute ppp0 to correct inteface

*cough ... that's what /sbin/ifconfig ppp0 will give you...
for the local network it would be /sbin/ifconfig eth0
(assuming that you have ethernet and not something
more uncommon) ...