ipnotify

notify to your gmail account when public ip address change

Installation

You can also install ipnotify as normal user (and maybe is a better choice) but isn't covered by this readme.

git clone https://github.com/Manu-sh/ipnotify
sudo gem install gmail
cd ipnotify

# ensure that all files have correct permissions
chmod 0744 .
chmod 0600 ipnotify.*
chmod 0644 *.rb
chmod 0755 ipnotify.rb

# now as root
cp -r ../ipnotify /opt

# install the configuration file
mv -v /opt/ipnotify/ipnotify.cfg /etc

# create the relative service
cat > /etc/systemd/system/ipnotify.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=notify to your gmail account when your public ip address change
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
PIDFile=/var/run/ipnotify.pid
Type=forking
ExecStart=/opt/ipnotify/ipnotify.rb -d

ProtectKernelTunables=yes
ProtectKernelModules=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Configuration

Edit ipnotify.cfg and setting your mail address and password, some command line options like --hostname can be specificated also throught the configuration file, to get more details on these common options type:

/opt/ipnotify/ipnotify.rb -h

now you should be able enable & start the service

sudo systemctl enable ipnotify.service
sudo systemctl start ipnotify.service

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