A Python script to regularly update the free [MaxMind geo databases] maxmind. Closely based on Boris from MaxMind's [Perl script] perlscript to accomplish the same.
Grab the whole repo down and link the Python file into your path:
git clone git://github.com/psychicbazaar/maxmind-geolite-update.git
cd maxmind-geolite-update
sudo ln -s ./maxmind-geolite-update.py /usr/bin/local/maxmind-geolite-update
Git should preserve the script's execute permission. If it doesn't:
chmod +x ./maxmind-geolite-update.py
By default maxmind-geolite-update reads the config.cfg configuration file in the same folder. Update its contents as required:
[Local]
download-dir: /usr/local/share/GeoIP/download
destination-dir: /usr/local/share/GeoIP
If you subscribe to the commercial MaxMind GeoIP Country database and/or GeoIPCity database, then make sure to comment out the first two lines in the [Files] section, to avoid clashing with MaxMind's ipupdate tool:
[Files]
; file1: GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz ; DELETE this line if you are a subscriber
; file2: GeoLiteCity.dat.gz ; DELETE this line if you are a subscriber
The last section uses the [HipChat CLI scripts] hipchatcli (specifically hipchat_room_message) to send a notification of a successful file update to HipChat:
[HipChat]
cli-path: /usr/local/bin/hipchat_room_message
room-id: <<HipChat Room ID>>
token: <<HipChat API token (can be notification-only token)>>
from-name: maxmind-geolite-update
color: purple
If you do not use HipChat, delete this whole section from your config file (including the [HipChat] title).
If you want to change the path for the configuration file at runtime, you can specify this on the command line like so:
./maxmind-geolite-update.py --config=~/maxmind.cfg
Assuming you're using the excellent cronic cronic as a wrapper for your cronjobs, add the following to your crontab:
54 14 * * * root cronic /usr/local/bin/maxmind-geolite-update
This will check the MaxMind server daily for new files. Do not check more than once every 24 hours, or you will get 403'ed by MaxMind.
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