webfaction-ddns

A script to update Webfaction DNS entries

Steps to install:

1. Copy somewhere accessible
2. Secure the config file
3. [optional] If you want logging, create the directory /var/log/webfaction-ddns
4. Add entry to cron

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For example: Download and copy the script to your /usr/local/bin directory and make it executable

wget https://raw.github.com/gesquive/webfaction-ddns/master/webfaction-ddns.py -O /usr/local/bin/webfaction-ddns
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/webfaction-ddns

Run script once as the that will run it regularly. This will create the config file in ~/.config/webfaction-ddns/webfaction-ddns.conf. Since your password is plain text in this config, secure the file.

chmod 600 ~/.config/webfaction-ddns/webfaction-ddns.conf

[optional] Create the logging directory and make it writable

sudo mkdir /var/log/webfaction-ddns/
sudo chown <user>:<user> /var/log/webfaction-ddns

Add entry to cron, for example, to run every hour:

0 * * * * /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/webfaction-ddns