Every now'n then my linux box has to be reboot to update the IP address. I have to do this everytime when my ISP change the IP address to my account. I can do the reboot remotely as long as su to the root before issuing the reboot command. I like to delegate is operation to a user and I don't want to give out the root password. :Another word, remote reboot the linux box in the user level. Or a better way to do this then rebooting the box.
Ken
Just restarting networking would be a quickie way, but you would still need root access.
/sbin/service network restart
You might look at the manpages for sudo. sudo allows users you specify to run the commands you specify as root.
man sudo
man sudoers
Jim H
Also, you might try writing a little script that pings a well known address, yahoo or something, once every 30 mnutes or so on a cron job. If there's no ping reply(meaning the ip expired), then it can restart the network.Just restarting networking would be a quickie way, but you would still need root access.
/sbin/service network restart
You might look at the manpages for sudo. sudo allows users you specify to run the commands you specify as root.
man sudo
man sudoers
Jim H
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