Creating a FTP log

TheJuiceman — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:24:28 GMT

Hey gang,

Is there a way to have all of the FTP information that populates the syslog go to a separate "ftp" log? As always, your help is very appreciated!!!

Re: Creating a FTP log

Bill Hassell — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:50:45 GMT

Yes. It isn't documented very well but ftpd sends it's information using the local5 facility name. So you change /etc/syslog.conf from this:

*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

to:

*.info;mail.none;local5.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
local5.info /var/adm/syslog/ftp.log

Then tell syslogd to reread the config file:

kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/syslog.pid)

Now, a new logfile called ftp.log will have all the ftp details. This concept can be extended to other logs:

*.info;mail.none;local5.none;auth.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
auth.info /var/adm/syslog/auth.log
local5.info /var/adm/syslog/ftp.log

which will log authentication details into auth.log and ftpd into ftp.log. Now syslog will be much easier to read.

Re: Creating a FTP log

TheJuiceman — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:16:18 GMT

Perfect!!! Thank you so much!!!

topic Re: Creating a FTP log in Operating System - HP-UX

Creating a FTP log

Re: Creating a FTP log

Re: Creating a FTP log