Ah, important safety tip as that will be the case. Since I'm not comfortable implementing technology I don't fully understand, would you be so kind as to translate into English each line of your script? I think I get the basic drift of it..."take a snapshot of the contents of a directory, take another and compare the two, if their different send an e-mail, if their not, start all over again" or something like that. Getting warm?
Thanks a million! Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send e-mail On 13-Mar-2003/09:33 -0500, "Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What about a cronjob that does this: > >olddirsum=`cat olddirsum` >newdirsum=`ls --full-time /ftpdir | md5sum` >if [ "$newdirsum" != "$olddirsum" ]; then > ls /dir | mail -s 'Updated FTP Directory' [EMAIL PROTECTED] > echo "$newdirsum" > olddirsum >fi This may nopt be a good idea to run every minute if the FTP server may receive uploads that take more than 1 minute to complete. You might get a notification every minute until the upload is complete. Tony -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
