VNC/VPN log on notification via text/e-mail message in linux

[mintu]

Hi Friends,

Is there a utility that will send a notification via e-mail or text message whenever someone logs into the network remotely(VNC) in linux environment?


I would really appriciate if you would give some pointers.


Thanks
Mintu

[paulkoan]

What VPN/VNC are you using? Some will let you execute a command on connection, which means you can just add the sendmail command to be executed.

Other than that, you could make sure that the vpn/vnc server is logging somewhere, and use logcheck / logwatch to scan the log periodically via cron and to send an email when it sees an entry matching a login.