I would like to know if there is way to execute a shell command   or a
shell script any time a user connects via ftpd.  I would like to do
this to track ftp activity for some of our users and log the
information in a file separate from the standard log.    --- TIA

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In article <5d170c0c.0312191030.e842171@posting.google.com>,
matahnuva@yahoo.com (Trent Rivers) wrote:
quote:

> I would like to know if there is way to execute a shell command   or a
> shell script any time a user connects via ftpd.  I would like to do
> this to track ftp activity for some of our users and log the
> information in a file separate from the standard log.    --- TIA


Do you want to execute a shell script on the remote server when someone
ftp's into a specific account?  I'm not aware of any ftp daemon that
offers this feature.  You may have to modify a PD daemon to do this for
you.  However, tracking users on wuftpd is easy.  Depending on how it's
built, it can log to a syslog facility that you configure to report to a
separate file.  It's not really a wuftp issue, but a syslogd issue.
Find out how your wuftpd was built and what facility to logs to, change
the syslog.conf file and restart syslog (don't remember if HUP will have
it re-read syslog.conf).  That should set you up.

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