email notification of ftp transfers

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:28 -0800, Bret Stern wrote:
> Thanks.
> 
> How would the ftp transfer event/trigger be
> monitored (trapped) to drive the mail message?
> 
> Is this an option defined in sendmail.cf or
> a daemon started on system boot, or even an
> existing running service?
> 
> I'll google mutt for some usage.

Are you trying to get the ftp client to send mail or the ftp server?

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bret  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Maxim Vexler [mailto:hq4ever at gmail.com] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:20 PM
> > To: bret_stern at machinemanagement.com; Getting started with 
> > Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: Re: email notification of ftp transfers
> > 
> > On 11/14/06, Bret Stern <bret_stern at machinemanagement.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone tell me some of the common methods
> > > used in linux to send email notifications of
> > > successful ftp transfers?
> > >
> > > Someone has asked me .. so i'm asking you all
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > >
> > > Bret Stern
> > >
> > 
> > Hi Bret
> > 
> > Basically you check for return value of the last command with if [ $?
> > == 0 ], then use either echo "Something" | mail some at address.com or
> > cat /tmp/some_log_file | mutt... the same idea apples as with mail
> > except for the fact that with mutt you can also attach files.
> > You also try mime-construct for the "low level" email message 
> > construction.
> > 
> > Google is your friend.
> > 
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> > Maxim Vexler
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