NAME
xferlog — FTP server logfile
DESCRIPTION
The
xferlog
file contains logging information from the FTP server daemon,
ftpd
(see
ftpd(1M)).
This file is found in
/var/adm/syslog.
Each server entry is composed of a single line of the following form,
with all fields being separated by spaces.
current-time transfer-time remote-host file-size filename
transfer-type special-action-flag direction access-mode
username service-name authentication-method authenticated-user-id
completion-status
- current-time
The current local time in the form "DDD MMM dd hh:mm:ss YYYY". Where DDD
is the day of the week, MMM is the month, dd is the day of the month,
hh is the hour, mm is the minutes, ss is the seconds, and YYYY is the year.
- transfer-time
The total time in seconds for the transfer.
- remote-host
The remote host name.
- file-size
The size of the transferred file in bytes.
- filename
The name of the transferred file.
- transfer-type
A single character indicating the type of transfer. Can be one of:
- a
for an ascii transfer
- b
for a binary transfer
- special-action-flag
One or more single character flags indicating any special action taken.
Can be one or more of:
- C
file was compressed
- U
file was uncompressed
- T
file was tar'ed
- _
no action was taken
- direction
The direction of the transfer. Can be one of:
- access-mode
The method by which the user is logged in. Can be one of:
- a
(anonymous) is for an anonymous guest user.
- g
(guest) is for an passworded guest user (see the
guestgroup
command in
ftpaccess(4)).
- r
(real) is for a local authenticated user.
- username
The local username, or if guest, the ID string given.
- service-name
The name of the service being invoked, usually FTP.
- authentication-method
The method of authentication used. Can be one of:
- 0
none
- 1
RFC931 Authentication
- authenticated-user-id
The user id returned by the authentication method.
A * is used if an authenticated user id is not available.
- completion-status
This is a single character indicating the status of the transfer.
It can be one of:
- c
complete transfer
- i
incomplete transfer
AUTHOR
xferlog
was developed by the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
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