Show # Of Users Connected To FTP Server

[_PQ3_RogeR]

I want to show the number of users connected to my anonymous ftp site which people download from on a page so they know when it's full. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Roger

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Depends on what OS and FTP server you are using...if I wanted to do this on my system (freeBSD and ProFTPd) I would run a ps command through PHP:

ps -U ftp

ftp is the user account that all anonymous connections are aliases to. So, this ps command would show me the number of active anonymous connections. I would then parse that info with PHP and just count up the entries....

[_PQ3_RogeR]

I'm using RedHat 7.2 and ProFTPD. When I run that "ps -U ftp" command in SSH it just says:
PID TTY TIME CMD

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Run

ps uax

and see what user name the anonymous ftp connections are using..then use that instead of ftp...

[_PQ3_RogeR]

I use the name "admin1" but when I type that command in with admin1 still nothing comes up.