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Re: Can ftp be made to log outgoing calls ?

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From: Scott D. Wells
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 00:12
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In a previous article, psanders@srd.bt.co.uk (Paul Sanders) says:

>After a long fight I've managed to convince my higher powers that 
>connections to the outside world are a Good Thing. However, they
>want us to have a 6 month trial, after which we will review its
>usage. So, I'm looking for a way of getting ftp (and possibly
>telnet and rlogin, but these aren't so important) to log:
>
>	o who invoked it
>	o from what machine it was invoked
>	o where did it connect to
>	o what was downloaded
>
>I've thought about doing this with by writing a shell script wrapper to
>ftp but I'm sure someone somewhere must already have done it.
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Paul.
>
>--
>   Paul Sanders      psanders@srd.bt.co.uk		Tel: +44 473 645716
>     Software Research, BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath IPSWICH IP5 7RE
>       Is all that we or see or seem but a dream within a dream ?
>


Yes, it can be done.  You will probably need to write a shell script
that will write the useres uid toa file, then invoke the ftp/telnet/rlo
programs.  

I'm not a Unix buff, so I could be wrong.  I know it can be don, though,
I have read some of the logs of it.

Scott 
ca393@po.cwru.edu
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From: ca393@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Scott D. Wells)
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Subject: Re: Can ftp be made to log outgoing calls ?
Date: 9 Oct 1992 00:12:33 GMT
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