kieranbarnes

Here’s how I keep on top of updating the GeoIP binary databases used by various scripts and applications I use.

I have a script called /usr/local/sbin/geoip-update

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/share-php
wget -q http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz
wget -q http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gzip -d -f GeoIP.dat.gz
gzip -d -f GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
rm -rf http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIP.dat.gz
rm -rf http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz

It runs every month from cron, like this

30 22 2 * * /usr/local/sbin/geoip-update

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