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echo: rberrypi
to: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
from: COMPUTER NERD KEV
date: 2019-07-11 00:09:00
subject: Re: Trouble using apt-get

Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:
>
>        Well... the dynamic DNS isn't too much of a hassle -- other than the
> fact that U-verse routers don't include software to update the DDNS system
> (unlike my older DSL routers which included configuration pages for dynamic
> DNS service). As a result, I have to run a CRON job to periodically pester
> the DDNS so it can link my router IP to the domain name. And that leaves a
> residue file on each update -- so I have another CRON job that deletes the
> residue files when they are something like two days old. I tried
> configuring the CRON job to direct stdout/stderr to the bit-bucket but
> doesn't seem to take or the residue file is not stdout/stderr of the task
> itself.

You could configure it to keep the file on a ramdisk.

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