I made a python program thats is called when I connect to a ppp network.The app requests www.noip.com to link any new IP to a Host I created in their website.
/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/noip.sh #this script calls my python app
The script runs fine when I connect to ppp, the python app is triggered and does change my IP addr on www.noip.com, but I'm not able to print messages to the console using just print. I have a few print statements in my app that only work if I run the app from the command line like ./myapp.py
How to show messages if my python app is called from background?
here is my Python code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import requests
import netifaces as ni
user = 'xxxxxxx'
pswd = 'xxxxxxx'
ni.ifaddresses('ppp0')
ip = ni.ifaddresses('ppp0')[2][0]['addr']
myhostname = 'xxxxxxx'
payload = {'hostname' : myhostname , 'myip' : ip}
r = requests.get("http://dynupdate.no-ip.com/nic/update", params=payload, auth=(user,pswd))
print " "
if "good" in r.text:
print "Hello ", user, "!"
print "your IP was successfully updated to:", ip
print myhostname, "is up and running!"
if "nochg" in r.text:
print "Hello", user, "!"
print "Your IP", ip, "is still active, no change needed"
if "nohost" in r.text:
print "The given Host name", myhostname, "does not exist under specified account"
print "Please review your Host name and try again"
if "badauth" in r.text:
print "Login and/or Username incorrect"
print "Please correct your credentials and try again"
if "911" in r.text:
print "Sorry for the incovenience but we are experiencing some problems right now"
print "Please try again later"
print "noip.com says:", r.text
print " "
The simplest to do this is to make the output go to a file in noip.sh:
python myapp.py > /tmp/myapp.out
Then when you want to see the output,
tail -f /tmp/myapp.out