NAME

pure-mrtginfo - 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

Pure-FTPd (C)opyleft 2001-2021 by Frank DENIS <j at pureftpd dot org>.

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