Re: [Proftpd-user] [Profited-user] flog changing space to underscore???

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On Thu, November 30, 2006 7:19 pm, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On 11/30/2006 11:23 AM, Paul wrote:
>> On Thu, November 30, 2006 12:50 pm, TJ Saunders wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all.  I am using Proftpd 1.2.10 on Solaris 9 4/04.  When a fil=
e
>>>> is
>>>> uploaded with spaces, the result in "xferlog.log" is an underscore
>>>> (_).
>>>> But in "access.log", it results in what it should be, a space.
>>>>
>>>> I've tried upgrading to Proftpd 1.3.0 and ncurses 5.5 from 5.4.  Sti=
ll
>>>> the
>>>> same results.  Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> This is not a bug, it's by design.  The original xferlog format, as
>>> used
>>> by wu-ftpd and subsequently picked up by other FTP servers, translate=
s
>>> spaces to underscores; proftpd is following expected convention.
>>
>> Is there a way to change this?  I see what ya mean, just tested a box
>> with
>> wuftpd and same thing.  But why would it change the the name in the lo=
g
>> file and not change the actual file name also?  That's like the log fi=
le
>> is telling a lie.  Doesn't make any sense to me.  Now I'm at a loss ho=
w
>> to
>> handle this.  It's difficult when an underscore could be ether of 2
>> characters.  Arrrgghhh.
>
> If you're going to parse the xferlog file with a perl script, how many
> fields are there?  Therein lies the problem - the filename field could
> be any number of fields if you allowed blanks in file names.  You could
> quote the filenames, but then you would not be in xferlog format any
> more.  You could move the file name to the end, but then you would not
> be in xferlog format.  You're darned if you do and darned if you don't.
> That's why TJ suggested something other than xferlog.  You can't change
> the name of the uploaded file since then the user would upload "foo bar=
"
> and find "foo_bar" in the directory, possibly preventing other
> operations from working.

Yes, I was thinking of that, but with the info I now know through custom
logging info from Saunders (which I missed(arrrgghh)) will help me output
log how ever I want.  Just before I got outa work, I had it running in a
"%t %f" layout.  Now I just gotta work on what kind of time format will
work good.  Does anyone know the time format from the xferlog?  That way =
I
can specify the same format in my custom log so I don't have to change
that part of my perl code which is working fine.  Thanks all!