FTP logging

["Dave Odom" <Dave.Odom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Loyd,

You wrote:
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from: "Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: FTP server side logging?

Hi Rob,

I'm already looking at the FTP exit points, V5R2.

The information center shows 3 exit points for FTP: client request
validation, server request validation, and server logon. None of these
shows
me the command issued by the client.

>From my XP box:
ftp> put me.savf loyd/me

What I see in the FTP server request validation exit point (VLRQ0100
format):
Application ID: 1 (ftp server)
Operation ID: 7 (receive file from client)
Operation information: /QSYS.LIB/LOYD.LIB/ME.FILE (requested target
path)

Nowhere do I see "put me.savf loyd/me"

I want to see/log the actual put command (or any other command) the
client
issues. I would write this information to a log file on the iSeries.

Thanks,
Loyd
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Loyd,

Have you written a logging routine into your invocation of FTP?   How
this is done depends on if, when you say "server", your talking about a
PC or the AS/400.  Its pretty easy on the iSeries.   I do it by using
REXX to call the FTP commands in a separate file and log the output to
another file.   I can then examine the log file with REXX and look for
certain FTP codes or character strings and make my REXX program do
operations accordingly.   In addition, the log file can be a permanent
or temporary log depending on your needs.

The same sort of thing could be done on a PC or whatever platform
invokes the FTP as long as there is a native language for you to create
utilities (scripts, execs, whatever you call them).

If this is the kind of thing your talking about and you need to know
more, let me know.

Take care,

Dave Odom
Arizona