rishimaharaj's questions

I'm using DNSExit on my Ubuntu server (Natty 11.04) and have installed the ipUpdate rpm file and did an apt-get install for chkconfig to enable the ipUpdate.

I'd like to get an email whenever the IP address changes, so that I can SSH into the box using PuTTY (because I can't unless I know the current IP address).

The current IP address is stored in /tmp/dnsexit-ip.txt, and I'd like to, whenever that file changes, to mail the contents of that file and the contents of /var/log/dnsexit.log (which contains a history of the IP changes) to my email address.

How can I accomplish this task? I'm thinking that a cronjob will be the solution, but I'm not sure how to do this.

I have an Ubuntu 11.04 server set up to host some websites and I have a dynamic IP address. I am using DNSExit.com to handle the DNS routing to the IP address and would like to install their DNS client on my system, so whenever the IP address changes, it will automatically update their records.

The client comes in three flavors and I do not know which to install. They are all the same version (1.6-2).

Also, are the installation commands that they have on the page accurate?

While trying my hand at writing some bash scripts I've come across various usage of the -exec parameter. In my context, I'm using it after the find command.

This guide states to use {} /; after the exec in order to pass the file name and to escape the ; so that command properly terminates.

This forum post shows the use of '{}' ';' instead of {} /;.

I tried out both methods on Ubuntu 11.04 and only the one with the single quotes is working correctly. Is there a difference between Linux versions which causes this? Are they interchangeable? Is one preferred over the other?