Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development

41.10. Configuring Logging

In a typical default configuration, WU-FTPD will log all uploads and downloads to the /var/log/xferlog file. You can, however, choose the types of users for which logging will be done (UNIX, anonymous, or guest), have the log written to syslog instead and select to record commands that are security violations for some types of users. Logging to the system log gives you more flexibility, as you can choose which file messages are written to, although they will be mixed in with other daemon facility messages. See Chapter 13 and the System Logs module for more information on how syslog works and to which files it ultimately writes.

Enabling the logging of all commands allows you to track exactly what clients are doing, ...