Logging Details

[Damien Tougas]

Thanks, I will take a look at that, it sounds like that might be what I am
looking for.

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Damien Tougas
Systems Administrator
Carroll-Net, Inc.
http://www.carroll.com

--On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 09:54:09 -0500 dsh2120 at draper.com wrote:

> You should check out the VFS stuff included in the source dist, 
> specifically the audit module. It's under examples/VFS. VFS is in a state 
> of limbo now, but it does work, at least with the cvs version. It is an 
> example module that logs all file open, creates, renames, etc to syslog.
> 
> At 2/20/2002 09:45 AM, you wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We have been using Apache and WebDAV on one project as a filesystem for
>> Windows machines to access files on a Unix server. One of the nice things
>> about WebDAV is the fact that we get very detailed Apache logs which tell
>> us exactly what happened to files and when. For example, if a user moves
>> a file, the log would give the following information: username, a keyword
>> indicating that this is a move operation, the source location, the
>> destination, and a response code which indicates success/failure.
>> 
>> I would like to be able to get similar information out of Samba (i.e. I
>> want to know when users create, copy, move, and delete files). I have
>> turned up the logging and have managed to get all kinds of verbose
>> output. The problem is that the output is not very clear as to what
>> exactly is going on. In fact, one operation (i.e. a move) can cause many
>> lines of debugging information to be written to the logfile, and it can
>> be very difficult to decipher what exactly is going on. Is there any way
>> I can get more concise output from the Samba logging facilites that
>> would make it clearer as to what the users are doing? Or, are there
>> patterns of log messages that I can look for or parse which would
>> construct a more accurate picture? At the moment it just seems to be a
>> bunch of reads/writes with no apparant patterns that I am able to
>> discern.
>> 
>> Any help that anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.
>> 
>> Please respond to me directly since I am not subscribed to this list.
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
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>> Damien Tougas
>> Carroll-Net, Inc.
>> http://www.carroll.com
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