DDUPDATE-CONFIG(8)

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version 0.7.2 · 2 versions
, in debian trixie, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 DDUPDATE-CONFIG 💖

okay bestie, welcome to dddupdate-config (that's ddupdate-config, section 8 of the System Administration Utilities, and yes she's a whole vibe) — the setup tool for your ddupdate configuration file. she's not complicated, she's just ✨ helpful ✨.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dddupdate-config

no flags. no arguments. just her. iconic honestly.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so basically she's a simple little configuration script for ddupdate, and her whole job is giving you a cute interactive way to set three things up:

  • your address-plugin
  • your service-plugin
  • your hostname

that's it, that's the girl. she walks you through it, you answer, she writes. no cap.

🫶 heads up though: the set of available plugins she loads? that depends entirely on your environment variables. like, she can only offer what the environment lets her see.

want the full tea on that? go read the PLUGIN LOADING section in ddupdate(8). iykyk.

😭 BUGS 😭

okay so this is the part where we're honest, and these are real limitations, not cute quirks:

  • Passwords you give to ddupdate must use printable characters that don't require escaping. this is partly a limitation in the script code itself, and partly just down to what the python netrc module can actually do. so no weird escape-needing characters, bestie, it's not gonna work and that's fr fr.
  • She does not support configuring more advanced features — things like ipv6, and non-standard address-plugins beyond web-default-ip and default-if. so if you were hoping for ipv6 here… 💀 not today.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

and that's the whole page, you're done, you ate 💅. this was the dddupdate-config page, last changed Jun 2019, from the System Administration Utilities — DDUPDATE-CONFIG(8) — mwah, go configure something 🌈🦋💜

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