application which can pop up like gtalk when some one accesses my server

[Tapas Mishra]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Aart Koelewijn <aart at mtack.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:28:53 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
>
>> I have a Ubuntu server with Public IP on which I have a few websites and
>> SSH accounts.I want to know if there is any application/daemon which I
>> can install so that when ever some one does an SSH connection to my
>> server I get a pop up on my laptop similar to  gtalk's popup message
>> which just gives me some one pop up with a message that user so and so
>> loged in to server.Or some other application which can also tell me when
>> ever http requests are made to my server so that I can be aware or if
>> some one tries a DOS (in this case requests might be difficult to
>> detect) but I get a pop up which says that so and so services is trying
>> to access your server from outside.Other than checking log files is
>> there any way for these things which I asked?
>
> You can run multitail on one or more logfiles and multitail has the
> possibility to start a program when an expression pops-up in a logfile. I
> f.i. start xmessage with an IP number in it when that IP shows in the
> logfiles from apache. This seems to be rather close to what you want to
> do. You could off course also run a tail -f on a logfile and pipe the
> result to a sed expression which in turn can trigger a program.
>
> Aart
>
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Hmmm,Ok.
Thanks for your message.