Hi

What FTP daemon are you talking about as currently I use pureftpd and it
does in /var/log/messages.

Mike

"Lawrence Krubner" wrote in message
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>
> This may be a stupid question. I'm grateful to anyone who can help me out.
>
> I'm working for a company that grants its clients FTP access to particular
> directories on the server. Each client gets their own directory. Some of
> the XML data they upload needs to be imported to a database. The XML data
> describes a set of images and music files, which are also being uploaded.
>
> Here is the problem - associating the XML with the right files.
>
> Let's say one client uploads a set files on Monday, more files on Tuesday,
> and more on Wednesday. Then on Friday, we want to import that data to the
> database.
>
> We already record the PID of each FTP upload session. So we know when the
> client uploaded stuff on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. But how do we
> figure out what files were uploaded on what day? Is there anyway to use
> the PID to track the files? Would the FTP daemon, or any other software on
> the server, be aware of this?
>
> -- lawrence
>
>
>
>
>

"Michael John Ruff" writes:

>Hi

>What FTP daemon are you talking about as currently I use pureftpd and it
>does in /var/log/messages.

>Mike

>"Lawrence Krubner" wrote in message
>news:CKedndBckb756A7VnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@earthlink.co m...
>>
>> This may be a stupid question. I'm grateful to anyone who can help me out.
>>
>> I'm working for a company that grants its clients FTP access to particular
>> directories on the server. Each client gets their own directory. Some of
>> the XML data they upload needs to be imported to a database. The XML data
>> describes a set of images and music files, which are also being uploaded.
>>
>> Here is the problem - associating the XML with the right files.
>>
>> Let's say one client uploads a set files on Monday, more files on Tuesday,
>> and more on Wednesday. Then on Friday, we want to import that data to the
>> database.
>>
>> We already record the PID of each FTP upload session. So we know when the
>> client uploaded stuff on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. But how do we
>> figure out what files were uploaded on what day? Is there anyway to use
>> the PID to track the files? Would the FTP daemon, or any other software on
>> the server, be aware of this?

Each file has a modification date.
ls -l filename
will show it to you. As long as you do not modify the files that date will
tell you when the file was made.

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:43 -0400, Lawrence Krubner wrote:
> This may be a stupid question. I'm grateful to anyone who can help me out.
>
> I'm working for a company that grants its clients FTP access to
> particular directories on the server. Each client gets their own
> directory. Some of the XML data they upload needs to be imported to a
> database. The XML data describes a set of images and music files, which
> are also being uploaded.
>
> Here is the problem - associating the XML with the right files.
>
> Let's say one client uploads a set files on Monday, more files on
> Tuesday, and more on Wednesday. Then on Friday, we want to import that
> data to the database.
>
> We already record the PID of each FTP upload session. So we know when
> the client uploaded stuff on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. But how do
> we figure out what files were uploaded on what day? Is there anyway to
> use the PID to track the files? Would the FTP daemon, or any other
> software on the server, be aware of this?


There should be a separate ftplog in /var/log/ If not, enable it in your
daemon.