Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?
On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:45:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am monitoring ftp through a wireless LAN which max at 300KB/s, running X11-forwarding is not comfortable. running a desktop session on the server and run vnc seems overkill. What's wrong with looking at the server's log file(s) in a standard SSH session? -- Neil Bothwick If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. * Maslow signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:45:12 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I am monitoring ftp through a wireless LAN which max at 300KB/s, running X11-forwarding is not comfortable. running a desktop session on the server and run vnc seems overkill. What's wrong with looking at the server's log file(s) in a standard SSH session? Because that mess up with other user's ftp activities. Also because I don't get the knowledge which folder the user I am watching is in (I could tell this by looking at the log backwards and find his last 'cd' command, but it's more convenient to look it just on the UI). There are other functions that is convenient on the UI but not on the commandline, e.g. number of concurrent connection a user have is directly on the UI on Serv-U but with vsftpd I have to run some smart combination of grep/sed/awk to get this info, and can be difficult to get it in real time. Also consider information you cannot get from reading the log, e.g. find out who is taking the biggest share of download badnwidth right the moment your user complain being too slow.
[gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?
Hello. I am looking for an FTP server software that let me monitor the ftp activities on my notebook. Both server and the notebook runs Gentoo Linux except the server doesn't have any X11 related stuff. The reason I want to do this is because I offer my users file to download and I often need to monitor what they are doing to make sure they gets connected. This is especially useful when doing support on the phone, I can call my user and instruct him to download file, at the meantime see he logged in and doing the right thing. I used pure-ftpd and pureadmin (a GUI for monitoring pure-ftpd). Pureadmin has every feature I need (see who is logged in, see activities) but it has to be run AFAIK on the same computer that runs ftp server. I used filezilla server which let me control it through a control connection and see activities, but the server software doesn't have a Linux version. I used pro-ftpd and didn't see the option for it's GUI manager to connect to a remote server. What software in Linux world can do this? As I am monitoring ftp through a wireless LAN which max at 300KB/s, running X11-forwarding is not comfortable. running a desktop session on the server and run vnc seems overkill. Thanks for hints in advance! Best regards
Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am looking for an FTP server software that let me monitor the ftp activities of the FTP server on my notebook (ftp server and notebook are different hosts) After homework on google it seems this feature is called remote administration. In Linux world only one ftp server I found support this: CrashFTP Server. Unfortunately the server is not opensource, and doesn't have a powerpc binary release (which my server is). -- Real Softservice Huateng Tower, Unit 1788 Jia 302 3rd area of Jinsong, Chao Yang Tel: +86 (10) 8773 0650 ext 603 Mobile: 159 7382 http://www.realss.com
