Server unresponsive question ?

[Oliver Niesner]

Peter Palfrader wrote:
> [Dustin, please try to trim what you're quoting]
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Dustin Eward wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wish it would read from a seperate file so that I could run a script 
>>that just grep/awk-ed the IP from whatismyip.com (wget whatismyip.com | 
>>grep foo | awk -F bar '{print $x}' > /etc/?torip?), checked for changes, 
>>and would automaticaly "/etc/init.d/tor restart" if the IP was ever 
>>different, and also change the IP in such scenario...  I could write it 
>>to rewrite the whole torrc file each time, but that's anoying and dirty...
> 
> 
> You mean like your torrc file?  :)
> 
> cd /etc/tor
> grep -v '^Address' torrc > torrc.in
> 
> now every so often:
>   cd /etc/tor
>   wget whatismyip.com | grep foo | awk -F bar '{print $x}' > torIP  # or what your heart desires to get your IP
>   if [ "`cat torIP`" != "`cat torIP.running`" ] ; then
> 	  (cat torrc.in; echo -n "Address "; cat torIP) > torrc
> 	  /etc/init.d/tor reload
> 	  cat torIP > torIP.running
>   fi
> 
> You also most likely want reload instead of restart.
> 
> 
> Not tested or anything, but it ought to work something like this or
> similar.

Thanks Peter! This seems to be a nice way to keep servers reachable. 
Will try it tommorrow.

cu
Olli