pure-mrtginfo(8)

pure-mrtginfo8

Provide an mrtg-graphable user count for ftpd

Usage

pure-mrtginfo [server port]

Overview

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.

Home page

http://www.pureftpd.org/

Author and license

Written by Arnt Gulbrandsen <[email protected]> and copyright 1995-2002 Troll Tech AS, Waldemar Thranes gate 98B, N-0175 Oslo, Norway, fax +47 22806380.

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.

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7–8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12–13

Bugs

This program only works on GNU/Linux systems yet.

From pure-ftpd-common 1.0.50-2.2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.