writing ftpd activity to ftplog

[ryanc2]

I'm having trouble writing ftp activity to the ftplog. There was no log in /var/adm, so I touched the file to create. I have set the -i and -o flags in the inetd file, but nothing is writing to that log. These are SCO UNIX systems. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[vgersh99]

have you tried:
kill -HUP 'pidORinetf'

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[PHV]

The name of the log file should be /var/adm/ftplog

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[vgersh99]

I meant:
kill -HUP 'pidOFinetd'

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[ryanc2]

I have ftplog in /var/adm as a link to /var/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.6Ga/usr/var/adm/ftplog.

I tried kill -HUP for the inetd pid and still nothing.

 

[ericbrunson]

Do you have 'lsof' on the machine? You can use it to list the file handles a process has open and see if it's using the file you think it is.

 

[PHV]

Good idea Eric.
The binary is here:
ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/binaries/osr/

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[vgersh99]

or you can try 'fuser' if you have it.....

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[ryanc2]

I do have lsof, but excuse my ignorance. What would be the command line options?

If I open an ftp session and run lsof | grep ftp, I see the ftp process and remote IP, but no filenames.

 

[ericbrunson]

You may have to do it as root, since you only have permission to see your own processes. You're looking for the ftpd server process, not your ftp client process.

 

[PHV]

lsof -pPID_of_ftpd

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[motoslide]

This is my inetd.conf entry for ftp:

ftp stream tcp nowait root /etc/ftpd -d -l ftpd

I get semi-detailed logs in /var/adm/syslog, and different entries in /var/adm/xferlog

It's been a few years since I set-up logging on that server, so I don't remember what heartaches it involved.
This particular box is running 5.0.4 (on an old AMD586 w/16MB RAM!)