Topic: ddclient and outdated contribs

[AKn]

Good day,

After installing the updates of April 19th, my server-manager panels were messed up. I uninstalled two contribs: smeserver-diskusage and sme7-ddclient. The problem was fixed. I have been able to reinstall diskusage without problems. However, I need ddclient (or something similar for dyndns) for some external users to access their data with pptp.

I tried to update the list of 'Outdated contribs' in the wiki but was asked to login first. My forum account does not seem to work with the wiki and I don't see how to sign up for wiki editing.

I've seen some mention of a smeserver-ddclient in the forums but nothing current to 2008. Nor can I find it as a downloadable rpm.

Could someone suggest how to get ddclient (or similar) running or limping along?

ak 

[brianr]

I have added smeserver-ddclient to the outdated list in the wiki.

My investigations show that that some version of the contrib was imported into the CVS by Charlie, and then Paul Floor did some development work on it around the beginning of  2007.

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2057


Not sure if anything else happened since then.

It would be useful to know the name/version of the rpm that you used, but i presume you have uninstalled it and now do not have a copy?

I can't reccomend you install it from the copy in the bugtracker, as it looks very much like a work in progress.

I suggest you create a bug in the bugtracker for it.

[janet]

AKn

If you click on Wiki Help
http://wiki.contribs.org/Help:Contents
it tells you how to get wiki access.

[stephen noble]

Could someone suggest how to get ddclient (or similar) running or limping along?

an Unsorted /server-manager doesn't affect the function of ddclient or anything else on the server

also you can rm the fr and de lexicons for ddclient

/etc/e-smith/locale/de/etc/e-smith/web/functions/ddclient
/etc/e-smith/locale/fr/etc/e-smith/web/functions/ddclient

[AKn]

Thanks to all for the good suggestions and help. The panel is up and running and looks normal. An unsorted panel list is workable but it doesn't look as nice or work as easily.

To do that I removed the 'fr' and 'ge' panel files and then ran
  /etc/e-smith/events/actions/navigation-conf

I'm using 'sme7-ddclient--3.7.3-2.noarch.rpm' from the 'fr' website. The 'smeserver-ddclient...' looked incomplete and untested. Thanks for adding it to the outdated contribs list (so I didn't need to create a one time user id). I didn't create a bug because the original creator has said that he will provide an updated version to resolve some other problem (and now hopefully the utf-8 issue).

[peterhocking]

Hi Akn

Did rm the fr and de lexicons for ddclient fix the problem?

Regards,

Peter

[janet]

peterhocking

Did rm the fr and de lexicons for ddclient fix the problem?

Yes, it did for me

[peterhocking]

Thank you

[cliff]

I installed this following the above instructions about a month ago.  It worked well.  This weekend I noticed ddclient no longer updated my IP on ZoneEdit.  Turns out ZoneEdit no longer accepts changes sent to www.zoneedit.com(ddclient default) and requires updates use dynamic.zoneedit.com.  I edited the templates and it is again working nicely.

[janet]

cliff 

I edited the templates and it is again working nicely.

For the benefit of others, please add details here of the necessary changes to templates.

Thanks

[cliff]

I found "www.zoneedit.com" in both files below ...

/ect/e-smith/templates-custom/ect/ddclient/ddclient.conf/*20Declaration
/ect/e-smith/templates-custom/ect/ddclient/ddclient.conf/*30FreeHosts

I copied both to a bkup dir, changed both to "dynamic.zoneedit.com" and saved, then ...

[root@smeserver]# expand-template /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf

I immediately received this email ...

WARNING:  file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf: file /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf must be accessible only by its owner (fixed).
SUCCESS:  updating xxx.xxx.com: IP address set to xx.xxx.xxx.xx (200: Update succeeded.)


regards,
   ddclient@ (version 3.7.3)
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Hope it helps.