Yikes...it's the topic that won't go away... :) Everything is working, just a little too well. Take a look at the script below...no matter how I structure the two snapshot ls files that are compared, they are ALWAYS deemed different and so always result in an e-mail notification being sent. I've tried it both with/without the --full-time option, and also with/without the pipe to the md5sum function.
Many have suggested using FAM instead, if I don't get this working I may just punt and go that route (resulting in a whole new round of questions for you all, of course). Thanks everyone! Stuart -----Original Message----- From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send e-mail Douglas, Stuart wrote: > 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? That is exactly it. For the record, here is a commented version, as I would have written it if I were implementing it on my own server: #!/bin/sh # # Notify the admin if a directory's contents has changed. # # The directory to monitor. watchdir='/path/to/ftpdir' # Who gets notified of changes. This may be a # comma-delimited list, but no spaces. recipient='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' # The file that holds an md5sum of the directory # listing, as of the last time it was changed. sumfile='/path/to/sumfile' ## End of settings ## # Get the previous md5sum of the directory listing. olddirsum=`cat $sumfile` # Get the current md5sum of the directory listing. Use the # --full-time option to avoid errors based on ls changing the # displayed date format based on the age of the file. newdirsum=`ls --full-time $watchdir | md5sum` # Compare the previous md5sum to the current md5sum. if [ "$newdirsum" != "$olddirsum" ]; then # The directory listing changed. # Send notification message. ls $watchdir | mail -s "Updated dirlist: $watchdir" $recipient # Update the summmary file with the current md5sum. echo "$newdirsum" > "$sumfile" fi -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
