Topic: dynamic dns service

[imcintyre]

Step 6: Find sme-server crontab (or whatever the contrib is called) and using an ftp program (I recommend Filezilla) upload it to the admin home directory.
Step 7: in the putty ssh window type cd /home/e-smith/files/users/admin/home/
Step 8: in the putty window type rpm -Uvh NAME_OF_DOWNLOADED_FILE.rpm
Step 9: The easiest way to do this step is to restart your computer. There is a command to gracefully restart the services you need after installing the server addon but I can't remember it. You could do a search for 'restart httpd gracefully' in these forums, see what comes up.
Step 10: in the /home/e-smith/files/users/admin/home/ directory type
mkdir bin



I made it to step 9 this time. I cannot find anything related to "restart httpd gracefully" anywhere. I wanted to find that before doing steps 6 and 7 and getting the job half done.

I am not sure what you are trying to do with the restart gracefully command.

Thx in advance for your help.

[Happy]

It basically just restarts the httpd engine so the extra tab appears in the server-manager window.

I'm not sure if it is actually required.
I'll do a search when I get more time to see if it is required and what the line is.
Otherwise if the extra tab does not appear in the server-manager you can just restart the sme-server box instead.

[imcintyre]

Making real progress now.
I managed to get the crontab manager into SME Server Manager.
I set up the directories as required.
You mention copying the appropriate script, but there are several on the pages and at least 2 mentione zone edit. Would you please specify.

Thx in advance for your help.

[Happy]

Can't help you with the script, don't know what your needs are entirely.
Are you using Zoneedit, dyndns or another dynamic dns hoster?

[imcintyre]

I am trying to use zoneedit.

Once again, after a good night's sleep, is it possible to copy one of the scripts  that are the standards offered in SME and modify it?

Once again, thx for your help.

[imcintyre]

I was away for a bit but now have taken this up again.

If I understand this correctly I have to put the script into /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/custom
and then run it using cron.

I can't find the directory /sbin/e-smith/dynamic-dns/custom. I can't even find one starting with sbin. Do I have to create it?

Thanks in advance for your help.