Hi,

Little bit of Background:

I am running an FTP server using Pure-FTPD which was a migration from an OS-X workstation to Fedora 10 - VMware esxi.

This was done for various reasons but the reason for choosing the Pure-FTPD app was due to an easier migration.

The system has been migrated for about a month and works very well. I installed it on the server using yum install pure-ftpd, configured it and imported all the accounts [about 150 accounts] so this is all fab. however we now want to see if we can get an upload notification.

This has lead me to look at the uploadscript option in pure-ftpd.
we use virtual users and the pure-pw file.

The Problem:

When we set the directive

The ftp server hangs, I cant seem to see how to get this to work, from my investigation I think the issue is that the yum install is not building the app " --with-uploadscript " i have tried to do a hand install on a test Fedora 10 VM, I downloaded pure-ftpd-1.0.27.tar.gz and unpacked it, did a ./configure --with-uploadscript then a make and make install, nothing reports any errors but it doesnt seem to install anything. I can start the server from a command line but there are no config directories ? and even after creating a new user and a passwd-mkdb i cant log in to the server. but that most likely as i dont have a full configuration. but i can t find where to put the configuration files.

Every post i can find on this is based around Debian or something else nothing on Fedora,

can anyone help me with some idea where to go from here ? ether how to get the yum install to run the uploadscript or how to get a hand install to work.

Thanks in advance for any help

Bob

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pure-ftpd.conf.txt (10.2 KB, 3 views)

okay I have sorted this

So the issue was that you need to be running the script file to send the mail BEFORE you run pure-ftpd, I know thats obvious really.

The vanilla build of pure-ftp on fedora [yum install pure-ftpd] does have support for pure-uploadscript so i have got this to work now.

what i have just done is on a clean build of Fed12,

1) run yum install pure-ftpd
2) done the usual build process for users etc and enabled the CallUploadScript yes option. [let me know if you want the details of this]
3) Configured sendmail so it can send me the mail [again let me know if you want the basics of this]
4) created a script called /etc/pure-ftpd/newfile.sh
which looks like this
! /bin/sh
echo "$1 uploaded" | mail -s "New upload : $1" \ bobd@mhnz.co.nz

5) run the script
/usr/local/sbin/pure-uploadscript -B -r /etc/pure-ftpd/newfile.sh
6) run the ftp server [service pure-ftpd start]

and bingo upload a file and you get an e-mail, to simple really. now I just need to work out how to get at the other variables i believe are there and do something meaningfull with the information.

The basic e-mail looks like this

/FTP_Files/wibble/test2.txt uploaded

which is not to fanstastic

hope this helps someone else.. its has driven me NUTS!

Bob