Execute command upon interface initialization?

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:02:25PM +0300, Ido Admon wrote:
> Hello list,
> I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network
> interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card
> that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I
> need to update a DynDNS hostname everytime it does (everytime the IP
> changes).
> I couldn't find a way to execute shell commands using the rc system or
> dhclient, what did I miss?

dhclient-script(8)? Maybe devd(8) will work as well.

> Sure I could just use cron but that's not very elegant.

On the other hand it is simple, which is a virtue in itself.

Roland
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