I have a Linux web server that will have a flash form to process user information. This creates a text file in a directory outside of the public area using the date and time for the filename.
What I need is this, whenever a file is created in that directory the system should send me an email notification. I don't need the contents of the file or the file as an attachment, just a notice.
Seems simple enough but I don't have a clue where to start, any help would really be appreciated.
why not add that function to the script that creates the actual file?
Yes, I could add that to the form. I thought such a script would be useful for other tasks as well.
a script that watches a directory for changes? too many ways of implementing that
Just one way would do. Any ideas where I could find such a script?
you can write it. simple script to ls /dir/dir >logfile.log in cron to run every once in a while
let the script compare the previous logfile to the one created now. if different - send notification
Sounds good, thanks!
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