IP address notification for VNC sessions

[Thomas Kaiser]

Put a file named newip (or similar) into /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ with the contens:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig |grep xxx.yyy | mail -s "New IP" somwone at somewhere.nnn

xxx.yyy are the first part of the ip number. This should be always the 
same even your ISP changes them dynamicly.

I use this on a debian box. But it should be the same on Ubuntu.

Regards, Thomas



Neil Woolford wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First, thanks to those who posted the useful stuff about rebinding the
> keystrokes for screenshot/windowshot(?) production in Gnome.
> 
> Todays problem is about initialising VNC sessions to support my
> brother's computer;  he's in France, I'm in England so this could help a
> lot...
> 
> I've tested VNC from my laptop to my desktop Ubuntu machine, and it
> works fine.  The problem is that I will have to step my brother through
> the Network Tools menu to get his (non-fixed) IP address to be able to
> initiate sessions.
> 
> This wouldn't be necessary if the Remote Desktop Preferences fulfilled
> its promise to email the information:  unfortunately all it emails is
> the words vncviewer localhost.localdomain:0 which clearly isn't the
> whole story!
> 
> Is there any way of setting the system up to automatically email the
> *current* IP address that is bound to the Modem Interface (ppp0)?
> 
> Neil
> 
>