I have an Opensuse 12.1 workstation that I use as a script “toolbox”,\u00a0 out in the regular cubicle space where I work.\u00a0 Because it sits smack-dab in the middle of a DHCP-based environment — and the corporate policy is to block all out-going SMTP\/email — I can’t just email myself the IP Address like I might in other locations.\u00a0 However, I do need to know when it reboots (power outages, etc.) and potentially grabs a new IP address.<\/p>\n
In this case, the one thing that I *do* have access to is a Windows server share (this is a corporation, after all), so why not drop the IP address there…?\u00a0 To do this, I’ve written a quick little script to mount the share at boot, and dump the address to a text file on the share….<\/p>\n
…But, I need to take an aside here.<\/p>\n
While I would normally just add a scripted call to the “ First, create the script that will run at boot (after a delay), mount the share, and plop in a file with the address:<\/p>\n …And protect that file (and the password) from prying eyes with:<\/p>\n Now, we need to add it to the …And that’s about it.\u00a0 After a reboot, you should find something like Now go play! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have an Opensuse 12.1 workstation that I use as a script “toolbox”,\u00a0 out in the regular cubicle space where I work.\u00a0 Because it sits smack-dab in the middle of a DHCP-based environment — and the corporate policy is to…\/etc\/rc2.d\/after.local<\/code>“, something about systemd<\/code> and the latest Opensuse 12.1 has caused this to stop working correctly.\u00a0 The good news is that jdmcdaniel3<\/a> has put together some quick steps to fix that for you, and you can find it all here on the Opensuse forum<\/a>.\u00a0 For the rest of this post, I’ll assume you’ve followed his steps and fixed it on 12.1, or you are using an earlier version where the after.local just works.<\/p>\nvi \/home\/jpavlov\/IpAddress.bash<\/code><\/p>\n#!\/bin\/bash\r\n# Better wait for network...\r\nsleep 60\r\n# What time is it!\r\nRightNow=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`\r\n# What file to write results?\r\nOutFile=\"$HOSTNAME-IpAddress.wri\"\r\n# Check the status of the mount first...\r\nMountResult=`mount|grep \"cifs\"`\r\nif [ \"XX$MountResult\" == \"XX\" ]; then\r\n mkdir \/media\/cifs\r\n # Mount the corporate share, mine is DFS-based... set it to your path\r\n mount -t cifs -o username=YourDomain\/YourUsername,password=YourPassword \/\/YourDomain\/DfsParent\/DfsPath1\/DfsPath2\/ \/media\/cifs\r\nfi\r\n# Switch to my work-group user sub-folder, again, set to taste and escape spaces\r\ncd \/media\/cifs\/User\\ Folders\/User\\ -\\ Jeremy\/linuxtoolbox\/\r\n# Finally, what we are waiting for\r\necho \"Results from $0 on $RightNow\" > $OutFile\r\n\/sbin\/ifconfig eth0|grep \"inet addr\"|sed s\/\"inet addr:\"\/\/g|awk '{ print $1 }' >> $OutFile\r\n# And I may as well drop an info message in case it doesn't work\r\necho \"$RightNow ifconfig export sccript done!\" >> \/var\/log\/messages\r\n<\/pre>\nchmod 700 \/home\/jpavlov\/IpAddress.bash<\/code><\/p>\nafter.local<\/code> so it will launch at boot:<\/p>\necho \"\/home\/jpavlov\/IpAddress.bash\" >> \/etc\/rc.d\/after.local<\/code><\/p>\nHOSTNAME-IpAddress.wri<\/code> in your folder, with the IP address from your workstation at last boot.\u00a0 Of course, you probably won’t do this is you have other folks who have root access to this machine, or they’d see your password in the script.\u00a0 Or you could create a drop-box type share that permits the deposit of the file, etc…<\/p>\n
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