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Authored by: jimhoyt on Aug 25, '02 01:34:13PM
As noted in MacAddict.

Brigadoon Software offers a product called PC PhoneHome that sends you an email message containing the current IP address. It's available in a free version which won't survive a disk format or a $30 version which will.

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This could work as well...
Authored by: kaptaineric on Aug 25, '02 07:58:15PM
Why not save yourself thirty bucks and have crontab do the work for you?

    Setup crontab to email your ip address every hour:


  1. At the terminal, type: sudo -s to become the root user.
  2. Type your password.
  3. At the root# prompt, type: pico /etc/sendip.ct
  4. In pico, type the following: 0 * * * * /sbin/ifconfig -a | mail email@domain.com
  5. Press ctrl x to exit.
  6. Press y to save.
  7. At the root# prompt, type: chmod 500 /etc/sendip.ct
  8. To activate the cron job we just created, type: crontab /etc/sendip.ct


    To list the active crontab(s), at the terminal type: crontab -l

    {each user can have their own crontab(s)}

    To stop crontab, type: crontab -r






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This could work as well...
Authored by: toblak on Aug 26, '02 01:02:08AM

The problem with ifconfig is if you are behind a firewall it will return your local IP address.



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Authored by: TwoTimes on Jan 29, '04 10:20:39AM

Don't get fooled: if you read carefully the macphonehome FAQ's, you discover that the only protection against disk formatting is asking the user to set up an Apple Firmware Password to prevent boot from other drive...



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