Re: Trying to make pure-ftpd log to fifo

Thomas Goirand wrote:
> I've been trying to write a pure-ftpd log to sql little C utility, so I 
> did a fifo using mkfifo /var/log/pure-ftpd.log. Then I start pure ftpd 
> with the option -O clf:/var/log/pure-ftpd.fifo. The problem is that when 
> I do cat /var/log/pure-ftpd.log, nothing comes out, and it seems that 
> pure-ftpd don't like to log in a fifo and sends nothing.

That's correct. I found that too when I wrote a log-to-postgresql
utility in perl. Basically pure-ftpd attempts to seek on the fifo, which
fails and the logging is aborted. I've written a patch to fix this. You
can find the patch on sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1293681&group_id=18317&atid=318317


I'm hoping that my patch will be included in pureftpd. (Developers: can
it be included please?)


Steve Marple


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