[KLUG Members] ProFTPD logging
Daniel
members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:06:26 -0500
Any reason you cannot specify the absolute path?
ie: TransferLog /usr/local/apache/domlogs/ftp.kilbournes.com-ftp_log
that works for me.....
Benjamin Stuart extolled:
> Hello-
>
> First off, thanks to those of you who pointed me in the direction of ProFTPD a few weeks back. It has turned out to be exactly what I was looking for in an FTP server.
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> My configuration file is nearly complete (along with the virtual user authentication), however I am having some issues setting up the TransferLog directive. My hope was to have logs created for each individual user for their activity, and stick these logs in ~/logs (along with Apache logs, etc).
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> As far as I can tell, most ProFTPD directives allow the use of "~" to indicate the user's home directory. For instance, when a user logs in ProFTPD chroots them to "~", etc. So to accomplish my goal for seperate, per-user, logs I am using the following directive in proftpd.conf:
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> TransferLog ~/logs/ftpxfer.log
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> This doesn't work. No ftpxfer.log file is created at all. I have also tried just "~", which also doesn't work. Setting it to a standard /var/log/ftpxfer.log, however, DOES work.
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> I don't see anything in the ProFTPD docs (http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/localsite/Userguide/linked/config_ref_TransferLog.html) to indicate this shouldn't work. What am I missing? Or is this just one of those "not possible" things? Thanks,
>
> Ben
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