pure-mrtginfo - Man Page

provide an MRTG-graphable user count for ftpd

Synopsis

pure-mrtginfo [server port]

Description

Pure-Mrtginfo counts the number of clients currently connected to ftpd(8) and output the format in a format graphable by MRTG.

Options

server port: defaults to 21.

Files

/proc/net/tcp

is used to count the connectiont to port 21.

/proc/sys/kernel/hostname

is used to get the fully qualified hostname.

/proc/uptime

is used to get the uptime.

MRTG

MRTG is a really nice package for graphing router traffic.  Mrtg can also graph other information is available via SNMP or by running a program such as pure-mrtginfo. The author of this program uses it to graph CPU load, /var usage etc., and naturally the number of users connected to his FTP servers.  See

http://oss.oetiker.ch/mrtg/

for more information about MRTG.

Bugs

This program only works on GNU/Linux systems yet.

Home Page

http://www.pureftpd.org/

Author and License

Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no> and copyright 1995-2002 Troll Tech AS, Waldemar Thranes gate 98B, N-0175 Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22806380.

Pure-FTPd (C)opyleft 2001-2022 by Frank DENIS <j at pureftpd dot org>.

Use, modification and distribution is allowed without limitation, warranty, or liability of any kind.

See Also

ftp(1), pure-ftpd(8) pure-ftpwho(8) pure-mrtginfo(8) pure-uploadscript(8) pure-statsdecode(8) pure-pw(8) pure-quotacheck(8) pure-authd(8) pure-certd(8)

RFC 959, RFC 2228, RFC 2389 and RFC 2428.

Referenced By

pure-authd(8), pure-certd(8), pure-ftpd(8), pure-ftpwho(8), pure-pw(8), pure-pwconvert(8), pure-quotacheck(8), pure-statsdecode(8), pure-uploadscript(8).

1.0.51 Frank Denis Pure-FTPd