petrified/README.md
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# 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.
## Features
- Several configuration methods:
* /etc/petrified.conf
* ~/.petrifiedrc
* -c (config) on the commandline
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- PID usage to prevent race conditions or stacked crons
- Logging via journald, syslog, stdout and a logfile simultaneously
- Local IP reporting for use with internal DNS entries
- Caching of the last IP to reduce upstream impact
- Usable via cron, NetworkManager dispatcher, commandline, etc.
## 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 |
## Configuration
Copy the default configuration file to */etc/petrified.conf* for global
use, *~/.petrifiedrc* for user-level use, or another location as desired.
At a minimum the **DDNS_KEY** variable must be configured for basic usage;
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.
## Acknowledgements
### Author
Troy Engel <troyengel@gmail.com>
Prior to writing this software, several contributions were made to:
* afraid-dyndns
* fdnsc
The original version of petrified was influenced by these two software
package's concepts, however actual code was not used.
### Contributors
none yet...
### Maintainers
Troy Engel <troyengel@gmail.com>
* Arch AUR package
## Support
If like this software, please consider upgrading to a Premium account to
help support the [Free DNS](http://freedns.afraid.org) project.