email me ftp user logons

jonfa · 05-23-2002, 04:49 PM

Hi All,

I have wu-ftp setup on my Redhat 7.2 machine and have a few users which frequently log on. I want to recieve an email when ever a user logs on. How can this be accomplished? thanks in advance.

Jon

fatgod · 05-24-2002, 04:42 AM

Hmm, I can't find anything in the ftpaccess manpage that could help you...

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Leffe · 05-24-2002, 05:06 AM

Write a simple cron script that parses the end of /var/log/secure awk/sed's out the username/time and mails it to you...
Could easily be written as a oneliner..

Or if the secure log is too big to parse every few minutes. Change syslog to also log to a fifo and the read from it instead..

Leffe · 05-24-2002, 05:17 AM

Well I guess sometimes the brain doesn't work as it's supposed to. It'll only work woth a fifo of course. Or you'd get multiple mails for the same login...