vsftpd xferlog + awstats

[Gavin Young <gavin young clendons co nz>]

Has anyone been able to successfully get Awstats to work with vsftpd's
xferlog?

Vsftpd server is working as required and Awstats has been set-up to
import vsftpd's xferlog as per the examples on the awstats website and
it all works correctly as long as there are no spaces in the filenames
being transfered. As soon as there are spaces in the filename awstats
thinks it's the next field and ends up dropping the log line because it
doesn't conform.

As I see it there is two possible solutions:
1) Get vsftpd to log filenames in xferlog without spaces automatically
OR
2) Run a script over the xferlog log, identify the filename field and
change all 'spaces' into '_' or similar and then run awstats over the
modified log.

I would imagine that this problem has been has come up before as vsftpd
is the RHEL recommended FTP server and awstats is a popular program. Is
anyone able to help with either of the options above?

Gavin