FTP logging
speicher at mitre.arpa
speicher at mitre.arpa
Tue Feb 9 12:57:00 AEST 1988
I manage a VAX 11/785 running Ultrix 1.2. The inet daemon on this system
looks at the file "/etc/inetd.conf" to determine what internet daemons run
(telnet, ftp, etc) and what pathnames to use when calling them.
Here's what the entry for ftpd looks like:
ftp stream tcp nowait /etc/ftpd ftpd
The manual entry for the config file says that you can append options to
the last item in the list. I assume that the last occurrence of "ftpd" in
this list is argv[0] when the program is called by inetd.
The manual for the ftp daemon (ftpd) says that ftpd can be invoked with a
"-l" option to log transactions to the standard output. Hence, they recommend:
/etc/ftpd -l > logfile
to log transactions. Here is my problem. Changing the line to read:
ftp stream tcp nowait /etc/ftpd ftpd -l > logfile
won't work because the ">" gets passed directly to ftpd.
Any suggestions?
Clay Speicher - speicher at mitre.arpa
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