Thank you all for your kind replies; I will use the information as you
suggested (including the -F :-)
regards,
Jos Chrispijn
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On 11 April 2010 18:32, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "Jos" == Jos Chrispijn writes:
>
> Jos> In order to find out if someone logged in, I should then first copy
> auth.log
> Jos> to auth2.log, and do a compare and then do the tail trick. Have to
> cron that
> Jos> every half a minute.
>
> N
> "Jos" == Jos Chrispijn writes:
Jos> In order to find out if someone logged in, I should then first copy
auth.log
Jos> to auth2.log, and do a compare and then do the tail trick. Have to cron
that
Jos> every half a minute.
No, just track it with tail -f as was already suggested.
tail -f /
> $ tail -F -n 0 /var/log/auth.log
>
>
Definitely use the -F rather than -f option as it will handle log rotation
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On 11 April 2010 08:41, Doug Hardie wrote:
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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
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:32:27 +0200
Jos Chrispijn wrote:
>
> On 11-4-2010 9:41, Doug Hardie wrote:
> > 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
On Sunday 11 of April 2010 12:32, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> In order to find out if someone logged in, I should then first copy
> auth.log to auth2.log, and do a compare and then do the tail trick. Have
> to cron that every half a minute.
> I would like to know if there is something that is alterted o
On 11-4-2010 9:41, Doug Hardie wrote:
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
migh
On 11-4-2010 8:27, andrew clarke wrote:
By which method? SSH?
Yes, sorry I didn't mention that. If possible on both SSH and otherwise.
Thanks,
Jos
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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 inf
On Sun 2010-04-11 08:14:48 UTC+0200, Jos Chrispijn (ker...@webrz.net) 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?
By which method? SSH?
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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.
Jos Ch
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