FTP logging

[Chris Torek]

In article <11726 at brl-adm.ARPA> speicher at 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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