> > > >> "MB" == Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MB> I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet > MB> connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an > MB> appropriate .wav file. Having sysklogd sending all daemon connections to > MB> an unused terminal would do the second part... how I find out who/where > MB> it was. I can do that part myself. What I want to know, is how to do the > MB> former. Is it possible? > > If you have X running, and are logged in, you could use the xlogmaster > package. You can then set up a regexp to find the telnet connections > in /var/log/daemon log. You can then tell xlogmaster zu play a sound, > or pop up a window, or execute a command. > > There will be better suited solutions I believe.
Just fantasizing: would it be possible to replace the reference to telnetd in /etc/inetd.conf to a script or wrapper that first `beeps' (or `wavs' or whatever) and then calls telnetd with the appropriate arguments? Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054
