CentOS 5 :: Ddclient Fails To Start At Boot / What To Do?
Jul 9, 2009
I have installed ddclient for use with dyndns.org.
I can manually run it from the prompt with /etc/rc.d/init.d/ddclient start
and can verify that it works by checking that my IP has succesfully been changed at dyndns.
When I reboot though, during the startup, I get the following:
Starting ddclient: /bin/bash: ddclient: command not found [FAILED]
I am very new to Linux, so I am not sure what or where I should be looking to solve the problem. It seems to me that it must be looking in the wrong spot for ddclient, but I don't know what to check or change to point it at the right place.
When I run ddclient with an existing ddclient.cache file I get errors saying "uninitialized value" and the remote IP address does not get updated. This pretty much renders ddclient useless. If I delete the cache file then things work fine and the IP address *does* get updated (if need be). I happen to be running version 3.7.3 of ddclient but I've tried this with ddclient 3.8.0 and the result is exactly the same except that the line number in the error changes to line 2030.
Here's the code at that line number :
Code: if ($config{$host}{'login'} eq '') { warning("null login name specified for host %s.", $host); I'm running ubuntu ( 9.04 I think ) and using zoneedit.com for dynamic dns. Here's a transcript showing the problem. root@ruby:/var/cache/ddclient# ddclient
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On the upgraded node, the following processes are running:
Whereas on the non-upgraded node, the following processes are running:
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