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I have a computer that every 5 hours change is IP I want to make a script that will run every hours with this command - 

wget -q -t 5 --output-document=- "http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp"

and send me the ip that he is getting. how do I do this? and is it possible to do? thanks.

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Make sure the remote system can send mail. Create a script in cron's hourly folder.

sudo -e /etc/cron.hourly/ipcheck

The contents of the file:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
wget -q -t 5 --output-document=- "http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp" | mailx -s "External IP Address" me@mydomain.com

Set the script to executable:

sudo chmod 0755 /etc/cron.hourly/ipcheck
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  • thanks , where\how do I write this?? , in which language is it? – david Jan 03 '13 at 20:47
  • @david Um... sudo -e invokes the default editor that will create a new file (ipcheck) in the /etc/cron.hourly/ directory. It's a BASH shell script. –  Jan 03 '13 at 20:51
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use crontab

 crontab -e

and then add below lines

 MAILTO="your@emailaddress"
 0 * * * * wget -q -t 5 -O - "http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp"
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