Michael Beattie wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Petter Adsen wrote: >> Michael Beattie writes: >> | I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet >> | connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an >> [snip] >> >> You can probably do this with tcpwrappers. See the manpages for >> hosts_access(5) and tcpd(8). > > Hmmm.. thanks... I'll look into that one too.
Actually, it should be pretty easy. You can just use the "spawn" option on the in.telnetd line in /etc/hosts.allow (see hosts_access(5) and hosts_options(5)). Something like this will work: in.telnetd: ALL: spawn /usr/bin/play /your/favourite/aufile &: ALLOW -- /'"`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | <http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/> --oooO--(_)--Oooo------------------------------------------ Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin