Monitoring file usage and emailing based on changes

[David Haines]

Thanks (!) 
The idea is to check for any changed files (new files or updated files)
within any / all Ftp user folders (in this instance, perhaps 20-30). And
then send an email to one person (the Ftp server admin) based on the
findings.

Of course now I have problem testing the  -newerct flag/argument...
The reply is find: illegal option -- n   and so on for each letter in
"newerct"  ... I am sure it's and ID10T  error on my end


> I think I'd do something like this as a daily cron job:
>  find /path/to/ftp/files -newerct '24 hours ago' -print
> 
> But it depends where the users keep their ftp files & such. If they
> have individual ~username/ftp/ folders, then you have to be a little
> bit more clever, and a bash script could email individual users
> (providing you have sendmail / postfix configured correctly) when their
> own files change.
> 
> Feel free to post more precise specifications if you'd like more help
> 
>> I think that surely there must be a way to do this with Cron, but
>> don't know
>> how to proceed exactly.
>> 
>> What I'm looking for is a way to monitor an FTP server (which is all
>> it does
>> service-wise) running Mac OS X 10.2.8 (server) for changes to the
>> users' FTP
>> directories, and sending an email (via sendmail) when a change has
>> occurred,
>> and/or once per day, perhaps sending a notification (change=none, if
>> nothing
>> has changed) ?
>> 
>> What would you do, have you done it, and how well is it working for
>> you ?