tftp logging to a separate file

logging tftp xinetd
Alan Evangelista picture Alan Evangelista · Jul 28, 2014 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I would like to log all TFTP server logging messages (and only those) to a separate log file. I'm using xinetd (extended Internet daemon) in Linux to provide a TFTP server. I tried adding

log_type                = SYSLOG local1

to /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and

local1.*                  /var/log/tftpd.log

to /etc/rsyslog.conf

but I only START and EXIT messages, such as

Jul 24 13:59:30 sail-staging xinetd[1364]: START: tftp pid=17955 from=x.x.x.x
Jul 24 14:17:03 sail-staging xinetd[1364]: EXIT: tftp status=0 pid=17955 duration=1053(sec)

Other log messages such as RRQ (which mentions the downloaded file) are still logged only to /var/log/messages.

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer

Elouan Keryell-Even picture Elouan Keryell-Even · Jun 5, 2015

In /etc/xinetd.d/tftp, instead of setting log_type to SYSLOG, you can set it to FILE:

log_type                = FILE <path_to_log_file>

This will normally log everything in the file whose path you specified.

(man xinetd.conf for more info)

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