HPUX 11.0/10.20 FTP Logging

[LG Porter]

How can ftp logging be re-configured to log to another location or file other than /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log?

[Patrick Wallek]

I don't think it can be changed. If you look at 'man ftpd' you will see that the '-l' option, which you would see in the ftp line in /etc/inetd.conf, "Causes each FTP session to be logged in the syslog file."

I think you either have logging of FTP to syslog.log or you don't have any FTP logging.

I have tried working syslog.conf to get the FTP logging moved elsewhere, but I've never had any luck.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

you can specify an alternate location for ftp logging using ftpaccess. Do a "man ftpd" for more info on the options available with ftpd daemons and "man ftpaccess" on how to configure ftpaccess for your system.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[S.K. Chan]

Cannot be done. If "-l" option enabled in inetd.conf file for ftpd it'll log it to syslog.log file.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Use ftp in verbose mode..
ftp -v > /tmp/ftplog.$$ 2>&1

USA..

[Mark Greene_1]

add this entry to your /etc/syslog.conf file near the top:

daemon.notice /var/adm/syslog/daemon.log

this will reroute logging for ftp (and all the daemon processes started by inetd and a few others) to this file. Not the the complete segregation of ftp info you were looking for, but it gets the messages out of your syslog.log file.

HTH
mark