Tracking outgoing FTP

[dictum9]

What's the best way to track outgoing ftp accounts?

Same question for wu-ftp. Is there an option for wu-ftp?

[Sanjay_6]

I do not think, there is one,

You can probably think of writing a wrapper to the ftp command. That is a possibility. Else tracking outgoing ftp will be a difficult thing.

Hope this helps.

regds

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The Washington University version of 'ftp' is standard on current HP-UX versions.

Logging (out and in) is done to '/var/adm/syslog/xferlog'. To decipher this log's fields, see:

# man 5 xferlog

Regards!

...JRF...

[DCE]

you can modify the command in /etc/inetd.conf with the -i and -o options to track incoming and outgoing ftp's

Dave

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

xferlog will log any incomin ftp activity. similarly you can log incoming activity, but not the outgoing one.

Hope this helps.

regds

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Incoming as well as outgoing FTP transfers can most certainly be logged.

See the man pages for 'ftpd(1M)', 'ftpaccess(4)' and 'xferlog(5)' for configuration options.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Muthukumar_5]

Do you want to track down file transfer information or user names which they are using for ftp?

First can be done with xferlog setting. Second one you have to write down a wrapper to capture ftp execution with tee or script commands.

-Muthu