First cut at monitor script. Gets extrnal IP address and writes it to data file with datestamp.

This is run from cron.

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+#! /bin/sh -
+
+#  SJP 16 August 2014
+#  Monitor my external IP address
+
+# set up logfile
+
+cd ~/mail/monitor
+
+if (test -e data/tmp.*) then
+	datafile=$(ls data/tmp.*)
+else
+	datafile=`mktemp --tmpdir=data`
+fi
+
+echo "datafile = $datafile"
+
+ip=$(curl ifconfig.me/ip)
+dt=$(\date  +%Y-%m-%dT%T%:z)
+
+echo -e "$dt\t$ip" >> $datafile
+
+