Removed seperate crontab script

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Anon 2022-09-29 00:14:03 -07:00
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@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Next you need to login to your Cloudflare account and generate the API tokens fo
- Run `./run.sh` to change it back. It should auto detect your web-facing IP and update the A record accordingly.
## Automate DynamicCloudflareDNS
There are a myriad of ways to automate calling a script at regular intervals on Linux. For brevity I will be covering the cron way.
There are a several ways to automate calling a script at regular intervals on Linux. For brevity I will be covering the cron way.
First off, install cron if it's not already installed:
```
@ -70,14 +70,10 @@ sudo systemctl enable cronie
sudo systemctl start cronie
```
Next, instead of calling run.sh with cron, we will be calling cron.sh. This is basically a wrapper script that will call run.sh, and pipe the output to `$HOME/cron/DynamicCloudflareDNS.log` so we can keep track of IP changes, as well as any errors that are generated.
To do this follow the instructions below:
- Make any changes you want to the log path in cron.sh
- Run `./cron.sh` and make sure that it generated normal output to the log path (nothing should appear in the terminal window)
- If everything worked, run the following commands replacing nvim with your editor of choice:
Next, run the following commands:
- `EDITOR=nvim crontab -e`
- `*/2 * * * * /absolute/path/to/cron.sh`
- `*/2 * * * * /absolute/path/to/run.sh >> "${HOME}/cron/DynamicCloudflareDNS.log" 2>&1`
- Modify the paths above to suit your preferances
- Save and exit
If you followed the steps above the cron job should run every two minutes. Tail the log file to ensure it's working correctly.

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cron.sh
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#! /usr/bin/env bash
# Dynamic Cloudflare DNS, a way to automate DNS changes for Cloudflare
# Copyright (C) 2022 Anon
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# Add the following to your crontab
# EDITOR=nvim crontab -e
# */2 * * * * DynamicCloudflareDNS
# Get the runtime path of the bot
ABS_PATH="$(readlink -f "$0")"
RUN_DIR="$(dirname "$ABS_PATH")"
LOGS="${HOME}/cron/DynamicCloudflareDNS.log"
# Relative paths to the virtual environment and main.py
ENTRY='./run.sh'
# cd into the bot's root path, set up the virtual environment, and run
cd "$RUN_DIR"
mkdir -p "$(dirname "$LOGS")"
"$ENTRY" "$@" >> "$LOGS" 2>&1
cd - > /dev/null

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run.sh
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
# Add the following to your crontab to automate this script
# EDITOR=nvim crontab -e
# */2 * * * * /absolute/path/to/run.sh >> "${HOME}/cron/DynamicCloudflareDNS.log" 2>&1
# Get the runtime path of the bot
ABS_PATH="$(readlink -f "$0")"
RUN_DIR="$(dirname "$ABS_PATH")"