Hello,

Can someone point me to the right direction on how i can do the following:

An email notification (say to my blackberry) is sent everytime a specific user has logged into FTP? Or a file uploaded to directory. But it needs to be as close to real time as possible.

Something in the lines of the simple ssh email i get when root logs in.

PURE-FTPD / RHEL3 / Cpanel etc etc etc.

You'll need mod_exec from here.

You could just use sendmail to send the email, you'll find plenty of simple one liners for that.

Let me know if you need more detailed help.

What you mean by use sendmail?

All i need it to do is send an email to me (regardless of what way it does that) once a person connects to FTP.

Seems simple enuff but for the life of me I can't get any good examples of this
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Any help would be appreciated - I'll look into your suggestion aswell.

Thanks

I. e. you can send a message from a shell script with sendmail. You call it just like any other binary, and it will send an email. This is a logical example, it won't actually work (I can't remember all the parameters right now...!)

Right, but that's a little hard for someone who just started running linux - Don't get me wrong,I can handle my own and stuff if there's documentation, but if peeps just keep throwing out suggestions I won't be able to learn.

So with that being said, anybody got a link or a sample code so I can look at and adjust?

Thanks

Ok, I would then suggest first taking a good look at mod_exec (see above) and once you have something there that works, and gets triggered correctly when somebody logs into FTP, only THEN go the distance and start looking into how to get an email out.

If (as I suspect, I know nothing about mod-exec) you eventually get to a point where you can have a script called if somebody logs in, getting a call to sendmail into that script should not be at all difficult.

I'm assuming of course you know what shell scripting is in linux?

I have done something similar, but in PHP - I send email based on a script triggered by cron. Cron is just an application that you can tell "run this each hour" or "run that each day" etc. In my case cron calls a shell script that calls PHP to do daily processes on a database, then emails me if successful.

This might have relevance to your problem since I suspect mod_exec will do the "run this if somebody logs into ftp" bit - the rest you might be able to do similarly...

If you want more info on this, respond and I'll work an explanation up.