vsftpd monitor?

[Devon Harding]

Has anyone found a way to monitor vsftpd connections?

On 12/16/05, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hear there were some security issues with proftpd.
>
> On 12/16/05, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hello Devon,
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:36:44 -0500 Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Will ftptop work with vsftpd?
> >
> > I wouldn't bet on this (excerpts from online man page):
> > ftptop - display running status on proftpd server connections
> >
> > Moreover, google reported many threads about people switching to proftpd
> to
> > get benefit of those ftptop/ftpwho/etc. tools. It remain 3 possibilities
> now:
> > either you find someone who already did a ftptop-like thing, or you
> > program/script it, or send a feature request to the author..
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > > On 12/13/05, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:
> > > > Hello Mike,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:09:07 -0600 Mike Klinke <lsomike at futzin.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Monday 12 December 2005 19:01, Devon Harding wrote:
> > > > > > Is there any way to monitor vsftpd traffic? Like ftpwho?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Monitoring at the packet level? .... tcpdump port 21
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Other points/levels of monitoring depend on how you have vsftpd
> > > > > confiured:
> > > > >
> > > > > At the login level you can monitor /var/log/messages
> > > > >
> > > > >  tail -f /var/log/messages | grep pam_userdb
> > > > >
> > > > > if you have virtual users set up.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > At the file transfer level you can monitor your xferlog file if
> > > > > you've configured this logging mechanism.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also at the login level you can set up vsftpd to run under xinetd
> > > > > and log user, host, etc by watching /var/log/secure
> > > > >
> > > > >   tail -f /var/log/secure | grep vsftpd
> > > >
> > > > I've been told that tail'ing logs is not pertinent on overloaded
> > > > machines.. maybe smth like proftp's ftptop would help (show online
> users,
> > > > current d/l and u/l, rates, etc.).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
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