Chimaera upgrade - ddclient

Geoff 42 · 2021-10-18 14:54:00

Following the upgrade of my desktop, from Beowulf to Chimaera, ddclient would not start, but reported :-

Unknown option: daemon 300 -syslog -pid /var/run/ddclient.pid

followed by the very long usage message.

After some fiddling around I finally (?) fixed this by moving the options from the command line to the config file :-

The following was added to /etc/ddclient.conf :-

daemon=300
pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
syslog=yes

and then edited /etc/init.d/ddclient to set OPTIONS to be empty :-

OPTIONS=""

This then seems to work!

/etc/init.d/ddclient start
/etc/init.d/ddclient status
Status of Dynamic DNS service update utility: ddclient is running.

Geoff

nightmedicine · 2022-02-23 01:58:49

I just wanted to quickly second this issue, but I solved it by just unquoting OPTIONS where it is used later in the file:

    -- "$OPTIONS" \

to

    -- $OPTIONS \

Head_on_a_Stick · 2022-02-23 17:03:04

nightmedicine wrote:

I solved it by just unquoting OPTIONS where it is used later in the file

Yes, word splitting is needed to avoid passing the options as a single string.

No action yet though.

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