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

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

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:agreene pobox com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:14 AM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Re: program to monitor directory changes (new files) and send
e-mail


On 13-Mar-2003/09:33 -0500, "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com> 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' my myaddress
>  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