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[Doug Hardie]

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 info to a file (that I then send by email).  Thanks.

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 might be.  You would also have to ensure it got started by rc during boot.