{"id":370,"date":"2009-12-01T06:46:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T10:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-03-30T06:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T10:50:36","slug":"script-to-email-successful-ftp-logins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/script-to-email-successful-ftp-logins","title":{"rendered":"Script to email successful Ftp logins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shell Script to email Successful Ftp Logins.
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This Shell script will search the server logs on daily basis and will email you the successful Ftp Logins of the day. The ftp logs are saved in the \/var\/log\/messages file as by default there is no separate log file for Ftp in Linux.<\/p>\n

Create a file \/home\/script\/ftplogins.sh<\/strong> and paste the below code:<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/bash<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#Retrieve the current date<\/span><\/p>\n

CUR_DATE=`date +”%b %e”`<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#Create a temporary file to store the logs
\ntouch \/tmp\/out.txt<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

echo “List Follows” > \/tmp\/out.txt<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#Search the successful attempts and save in the temporary file<\/span><\/p>\n

\/bin\/grep “$CUR_DATE” \/var\/log\/messages | grep pure-ftpd | grep logged >> \/tmp\/out.txt<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#Email the contents of the file to your email address
\n\/bin\/mail -s “Successful Ftp Login Attempts on ‘$CUR_DATE'” youremail@yourdomain.com < \/tmp\/out.txt<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Save the file. You now have to schedule a cron to execute the file once in a day<\/strong> to search logs. Edit the cron file<\/p>\n

crontab -e<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and add the following cron job<\/p>\n

59 23 * * * \/bin\/sh \/home\/script\/ftplogins.sh<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) This script will work with Pure-Ftpd server. You will have to edit the search string a bit according to your Ftp server.<\/p>\n

2) If you copy\/paste the script as it is in shell, the single and double quotes may change to dots (.) so make sure you correct them before executing the script.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shell Script to email Successful Ftp Logins.<\/p>\n

This Shell script will search the server logs on daily basis and will email you the successful Ftp Logins of the day. The ftp logs are saved in the \/var\/log\/messages file as by default there is no separate log file for Ftp in Linux.
\nCreate a file \/home\/script\/ftplogins.sh and paste the below code:
\n#!\/bin\/bash
\n#Retrieve the current date
\nCUR_DATE=`date +”%b %e”`
\n#Create a temporary file to store the logs
\ntouch \/tmp\/out.txt
\necho “List Follows” > \/tmp\/out.txt
\n#Search the successful attempts and save in the temporary file
\n\/bin\/grep “$CUR_DATE” \/var\/log\/messages | grep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[486,931,484,485,490,933,483,930,932],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}