Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:41:01 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto update Message-ID: <F02E5989-F279-4059-9858-EF36FDA726FC@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <4BC168D8.7080900@webrz.net> References: <4BC168D8.7080900@webrz.net>
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On 10 April 2010, at 23:14, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> Can someone tell me if there is a way of generating an email on the =
moment that someone logs in to my FreeBSD server? The mail part =
(phpmail) will be easy; I don't know yet how to trigger and pass =
parameter to this script or redirect info to a file (that I then send by =
email). Thanks.
A cheesy way to do that is to use a popen ("tail -f /var/log/auth.log", =
"r") and then read that. It will give you every login regardless of =
ssh, telnet etc. You could then generate the emails from that. I have =
no idea just how resource intensive this might be. You would also have =
to ensure it got started by rc during boot.=
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