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-petrified
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-petrified 1.0
+# petrified
+
+Copyright (c) 2014 Troy Engel  
+GPLv3 - see LICENSE for details
+
+## Introduction
+
+Petrified is a bash client to update dynamic DNS at freedns.afraid.org; the goals
+are for simplicity, flexibility and configurability which using the minimal
+system tools installed with most distributions.
+
+## Dependencies
+
+| Utility | Package     |
+| --------|-------------|
+| logger  | util-linux  |
+| kill    | util-linux  |
+| printf  | coreutils   |
+| touch   | coreutils   |
+| date    | coreutils   |
+| cat     | coreutils   |
+| rm      | coreutils   |
+| bash    | bash        |
+| ip      | iproute2    |
+| curl    | curl        |
+
+
+## Features
+
+- Several configuration methods:
+ * /etc/petrified.conf
+ * ~/.petrifiedrc
+ * -c (config) on the commandline
+
+- IPv4 and IPv6 support
+- PID usage to prevent race conditions
+- Logging via journald, syslog, stdout and a logfile
+- Local IP reporting for use on internal machines
+- Caching of the last IP to reduce upstream impact
+- Usable via cron, NetworkManager dispatcher, commandline, etc.
+
+## Configuration
+
+Copy the default configuration file to */etc/petrified.conf*, *~/.petrifiedrc* or
+another location as desired. At a minimum the **DDNS_KEY** variable must be
+configured for basic usage as root, all other variables are preconfigured for
+system level (root) usage.
+
+If implementing at the user level, be sure and set the various file location
+options to a directory that is writable by the user; the default config is
+fully documented and should make sense.
+
+## Usage
+
+Usage is simple - just run **petrified** and check your log(s).
+
+To use a custom configuration file, the **-c (config)** parameter is supported;
+note that using this option will *not* read the global/local configuration files
+and only use the variables from this custom file.
 
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-Petrified is a bash client to update dynamic DNS at freedns.afraid.org