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

["Douglas, Stuart" <stuart douglas agt com>]

Dunno...looks pretty intense to this noob.  :)

Seriously though, if I'm following what you're doing (and I think I am), that should do it.  I'd just have to set the cron job to run fairly frequently.  Amazingly, I already have one running that strips out .xml files that fires every minute (yikes!)...I could just add your bit-o-magic to that.

Thanks!

Stuart
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:agreene pobox com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 9:33 AM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Re: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send
e-mail


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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