Re: notification of user login

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 12:41 +1100, Caveman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking for a way to get a notification when a user logs in via email?
> The only why I have been able to think of was to move /bin/sh and
> /bin/bash and create bash files to load these along with sending a
> email.  But I was wondering if there is a easier way ? Or a program
> designed for this ?

i dont know about anything already designed, but you could "tail
-f /var/log/auth.log" and process that output.

-matt zagrabelny