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From: chris@trantor.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: FTP logging
Message-ID: <2268@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 88 15:38:36 GMT
References: <11726@brl-adm.ARPA>
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In article <11726@brl-adm.ARPA> speicher@mitre.arpa writes:
>The manual for the [Ultrix x.y] ftp daemon (ftpd) says that ftpd can
>be invoked with a -l" option to log transactions to the standard output.

>ftp	stream	tcp	nowait	/etc/ftpd	ftpd -l > logfile
>
>won't work because the ">" gets passed directly to ftpd.
>
>Any suggestions?

Try

	ftp	stream	tcp	nowait	/etc/ftpd.logging	ftpd

with /etc/ftpd.logging being an executable shell script:

	#! /bin/sh
	exec /etc/ftpd -l >> /somewhere/logfile
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