Re: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send e-mail

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

On 13-Mar-2003/08:55 -0500, "Douglas, Stuart" <stuart douglas agt com> wrote:
>I was hoping to find a way to do this directly via an ftp daemon, but it
>looks like I'll need an external program.  I want to find a way to have
>my ftp server watch a specific directory for any new file uploads and
>send an e-mail to a specified account when any occur.  Anyone have any
>ideas on how this might best be done?

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' my myaddress
  echo "$newdirsum" > olddirsum
fi


Tony
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