ProFTPd logging

[fluid11]

I can't get ProFTPd to log anything. I used to have a very similar config in the past and it worked. I'll paste my config file below. Any ideas what I could be missing or forgetting to do? Everything else is working okay except for the logging to the 2 files I specified in the VirtualHost. Thanks in advance



ServerType standalone
DefaultServer on
Port 21
Umask 027
MaxInstances 10
AllowOverwrite on

<Limit ALL>
Order allow,deny
</Limit>

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.234>
ServerName &quot;Chris's Linux FTP Server&quot;
DefaultRoot /ftp
User proftpd
Group proftpd
DisplayLogin ./readme.txt
ExtendedLog ./.access.log read,write
ExtendedLog ./.auth.log auth

<Limit Login>
DenyGroup !proftpd
</Limit>

<Limit READ DIRS>
DenyGroup !proftpd
</Limit>

<Limit WRITE>
DenyGroup !admins
</Limit>

<Directory /ftp/upload/*>

<Limit WRITE>
AllowGroup proftpd
DenyAll
</Limit>

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

 

[sleipnir214]

You may need to specify an absolute pathname in your ExtendedLog directives.

 

[fluid11]

I tried that and it didn't work. This is exactly how I had it in my old config, using relative paths to the DefaultRoot.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[fluid11]

I just figured it out. I created the log files beforehand using &quot;touch&quot;. I deleted the files and let ProFTPd create them for me and it worked.

 

[sleipnir214]

Check out who owns those files. I'll bet when you created them by touch-ing them, the permissions weren't right for the daemon to write to them.

Hmmm. You may have stumbled on an undocumented feature, I guess. ProFTPd's online documentation explicitly states that in the ExtendedLog directive, the filename argument &quot;must contain an absolute pathname to a logfile which will be appended to when proftpd starts&quot;

 

[fluid11]

Thats weird. I had to set up another ProFTPd server today and I specified an absolute path to the log directory and it didn't work again.

DefaultRoot /var/ftp
ExtendedLog /var/ftp-logs/access.log read,write

Next, I changed it to a relative path to the DefaultRoot directive and it works now.

DefaultRoot /var/ftp
ExtendedLog ../ftp-logs/access.log read,write

Does this only happen to me?

 

[sleipnir214]

I've always used absolute pathnames and I've never had a problem. Except in making sure that the user as which ProFTPd runs has access to write to the file.