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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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