Re: vsftpd xferlog + awstats

[Stephen Gardner <stephen-rhel uk org>]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Gavin Young wrote:

> 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.

Gavin,
    From what I can tell you're right in that awstat uses space as the 
default delimiter (or similar user configured delimiters) for log file 
field extraction hence the breakage. I found the following perl script to 
process vsftpd.log into an awstat friendly format just as you suggest in 
2).

https://osgpcq.no-ip.com/osg/Contribution/awstats.html

    I ran it on an vsftpd.log I've got an it seemed to provide an 
appropriate (no-space filenames) version of the log. However it doesn't 
just process the filename field so check the output as you may want / need 
to adapt it to fit your specific needs.

Regards,
    Stephen