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Topic: Logfile format

Hi, nice utility. Two questions: is it possible to log the size of the file transfer to the logfile? Most FTP servers would do that. Secondly, could someone explain each field of the log file?

Thanks,
BS

  • teka
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Re: Logfile format

Hi,

1/ At this time you can't change anything in the log file sad ... should be improved in the future ! wink

2/ Sample:

2008-02-16 18:20:30 [42]My message.

Format
"2008-02-16 18:20:30" -> Date (year-month-day hours-minutes-seconds)
"42" -> Pid of MySecureShell (help to follow one session of a user)
"My message." -> Text of the events smile


Best regards,
MySecureShell Team.

3 Reply by fabrozor (edited by fabrozor 2008-06-28 11:20:19)

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Re: Logfile format

pareil pour moi

oups,

same for me.

I have to set up a specific logfiles analyser --> AwStats ( http://awstats.sourceforge.net )
This logfiles analyser config file, can be modified to match some logfile formats. But there are some required fields as :
- code
- bytesd
- methodurl (or method)

for exemple i tryed to modify AwStats to match MySecureShell log format but i could not do something less than this  

LogFormat="%time2 %code %logname %host %methodurlnoprot %bytesd"

The problem is i get a perl error when i launch the AwStats.pl perl script because i think i can't handle the final ^[37:40:0m
But this is probably not this because i tried to edit the log file and replace all the ^[37:40:0m with "0000" and it said the same error about no more existing ^[37:40:0m !!!??

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5755/awstatsperlerrorbn0.th.jpg

So i am very interrested to be able to modify the MySecureShell log format to make the both "MySecureShell" and "AwStats" work together.

Exemple of my MySecureShell logfile

2008-05-12 16:17:52 [32:40:1m[2304]New client [nathalie] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-05-12 14:18:32 [31:40:1m[2304][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Try to create directory '/projet-25' : success[37:40:0m
2008-05-12 16:20:52 [32:40:1m[2310]New client [nathalie] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-05-12 14:20:52 [34:40:1m[2310][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Upload into file '/projet-25/P25-52.JPG'[37:40:0m
2008-05-12 16:20:52 [32:40:1m[2312]New client [nathalie] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-05-12 16:20:52 [34:40:1m[2312][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Upload into file '/projet-25/P25-53.JPG'[37:40:0m
2008-05-12 14:20:53 [34:40:1m[2310][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Upload into file '/projet-25/P25-54.JPG'[37:40:0m
2008-05-12 16:20:53 [34:40:1m[2312][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Upload into file '/projet-25/P25-49.JPG'[37:40:0m
2008-05-12 14:20:54 [34:40:1m[2310][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Upload into file '/projet-25/P25-50.JPG'[37:40:0m
2008-05-12 16:20:54 [34:40:1m[2312][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Upload into file '/projet-25/P25-51.JPG'[37:40:0m
2008-05-12 14:21:03 [32:40:1m[2304][nathalie][192.168.0.2]Quit.[37:40:0m

  • teka
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Re: Logfile format

Hi,

Try to recompile MySecureShell with:

./configure --with-logcolor=no
make
./install.sh fr

wink

fabrozor wrote:

pareil pour moi

oups,

same for me.

I have to set up a specific logfiles analyser --> AwStats ( http://awstats.sourceforge.net )
This logfiles analyser config file, can be modified to match some logfile formats. But there are some required fields as :
- code
- bytesd
- methodurl (or method)

for exemple i tryed to modify AwStats to match MySecureShell log format but i could not do something less than this  

LogFormat="%time2 %code %logname %host %methodurlnoprot %bytesd"

The problem is i get a perl error when i launch the AwStats.pl perl script because i think i can't handle the final ^[37:40:0m
But this is probably not this because i tried to edit the log file and replace all the "^[37:40:0m" with "0000" and it said the same error about no more existing "^[37:40:0m" !!!??

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/5755 … bn0.th.jpg

So i am very interrested to be able to modify the MySecureShell log format to make the both "MySecureShell" and "AwStats" work together.

Exemple of my MySecureShell logfile

2008-04-14 19:16:24 [32:40:1m[2258]New client [alain] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-04-14 17:21:25 [32:40:1m[2258][alain][192.168.0.2]Connection time out[37:40:0m
2008-04-14 17:21:25 [32:40:1m[2258][alain][192.168.0.2]Quit.[37:40:0m
2008-04-14 19:52:13 [32:40:1m[2395]New client [alain] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-04-14 17:52:17 [32:40:1m[2395][alain][192.168.0.2]Quit.[37:40:0m
2008-04-14 20:01:18 [32:40:1m[2425]New client [alain] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-04-14 20:01:25 [32:40:1m[2425][alain][192.168.0.2]Quit.[37:40:0m
2008-04-14 20:02:54 [32:40:1m[2441]New client [alaintest] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-04-14 18:07:14 [32:40:1m[2441][alaintest][192.168.0.2]Quit.[37:40:0m
2008-04-14 20:30:16 [32:40:1m[2642]New client [alain] from [192.168.0.2][37:40:0m
2008-04-14 20:30:16 [31:40:7m[2642][alain][192.168.0.2]Couldn't go to home '/CHROOT_RSSH/home/alain' : No such file or directory[37:40:0m
2008-04-14 20:30:16 [31:40:7m[2642][alain][192.168.0.2]Couldn't chroot : No such file or directory[37:40:0m
2008-04-14 20:35:17 [32:40:1m[2642][alain][192.168.0.2]Quit.[37:40:0m

5 Reply by fabrozor (edited by fabrozor 2008-06-28 11:24:44)

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Re: Logfile format

ok i'll try that
thank you big_smile

6 Reply by fabrozor (edited by fabrozor 2008-06-28 11:40:39)

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Re: Logfile format

Hello again.

(AwStats logfile analyser is on a windows client
(MySecureShell server is on a debian

I just checked and i saw i installed from a package.

/var/cache/apt/archives/mysecureshell_1.0_i386.deb

How can i recompile from a package ? (sorry i am a newbinux)

edit :

I found that --> http://mysecureshell.sourceforge.net/fr … #question2
But i wonder if i must uninstall the package i installed before reinstalling from compiled sources.

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Re: Logfile format

Problem :

I compiled --with-logcolor=no and it compiled with yes :-/

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6789/msscompilationwz2.th.jpg

8 Reply by fabrozor (edited by fabrozor 2008-06-28 13:21:07)

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Re: Logfile format

another problem, the logs.

Before recompiling, i made a 

cp /var/log/sftp-server.log /var/log/sftp-server.log_old
> /var/log/sftp-server.log

to empty them.

To compile i became root in my "/root/mysecureshell_1.0/" directory (.tar.gz archive i uncomressed)
i compiled with :

./configure --with-logfile=/var/log/sftp-server.log --with-logcolor=no
make all

After recompiling, i made :

cp -f MySecureShell /bin/MySecureShell && chmod 755 /bin/MySecureShell

I perform some sftp actions, but my logs remains desperatly empty.

something's broken sad

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Re: Logfile format

Ok it's almost fixed.
I forgot to make a 

make install

Well, the problem remains that it's still in color logged.
http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/1241/colorloggedpg0.th.jpg

  • teka
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Re: Logfile format

fabrozor wrote:

Problem :

I compiled --with-logcolor=no and it compiled with yes :-/

http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6789 … wz2.th.jpg

Sorry smile, it's :

./configure --without-logcolor=yes
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Re: Logfile format

i mean't "./configure" too but with color at "no" it didn't work. My logs are colored.

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Re: Logfile format

Hi,

After "./configure", just edit "config.h" and find the line with "HAVE_LOG_IN_COLOR" and delete it wink

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Re: Logfile format

Thank you teka, i'll try that.