From 39a48487878b0730bd55a1855a54925cda1f294f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: wimpunk <wimpunk@users.sf.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:01:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added patch "Patch: Treat --daemon values as intervals"
 (submitted by James deBoer)

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.code.sf.net/p/ddclient/code/trunk/svn@28 3873ddee-7413-0410-b6c4-c2c57c1ab35a
---
 Changelog |  3 +++
 ddclient  | 12 ++++++++----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 48655af..fddd1e7 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Changelog
 3.7.1
 - URL of zoneedit has changed (see bug #1558483)
 - Added initscript for Ubuntu (posted by Paolo Martinelli)
+- Added patch "Patch: Treat --daemon values as intervals"
+  (submitted by James deBoer)
+
 
 3.7.0
 - Added vi tag
diff --git a/ddclient b/ddclient
index 647f5d4..94eefc0 100755
--- a/ddclient
+++ b/ddclient
@@ -593,7 +593,7 @@ do {
     usage("invalid argument '-use %s'; possible values are:\n%s", $opt{'use'}, join("\n",ip_strategies_usage()))
       unless exists $ip_strategies{lc opt('use')};
     
-    $daemon = define($opt{'daemon'}, $globals{'daemon'});
+    $daemon = $opt{'daemon'};
     $daemon = 0 if opt('force');
 
     ## obtain the IP address to use.
@@ -979,9 +979,13 @@ sub init_config {
     $opt{'min-error-interval'} = max(interval(opt('min-error-interval')), interval(default('min-error-interval')));
 
     $opt{'timeout'}  = 0               if opt('timeout') < 0;
-    $opt{'daemon'}   = minimum('daemon')
-      if   define($opt{'daemon'},$globals{'daemon'},0) 
-	&& define($opt{'daemon'},$globals{'daemon'}) < minimum('daemon');
+
+    ## only set $opt{'daemon'} if it has been explicitly passed in
+    if (define($opt{'daemon'},$globals{'daemon'},0)) {
+        $opt{'daemon'} = interval(opt('daemon'));
+        $opt{'daemon'} = minimum('daemon')
+          if ($opt{'daemon'} < minimum('daemon'));
+    }
     
     ## define or modify host options specified on the command-line
     if (exists $opt{'options'} && defined $opt{'options'}) {