FTPSTATS(8)

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💖 FTPSTATS — the ftpstats(8) glow-up 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the System Manager's Manual (section 8, the admin-y one, very grown-up of us) and it's all about ftpstats, the FTP log summarizer. she's giving data-girlie, she's giving receipts, she's literally just here to read your ftp log and spill the tea as statistics. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ftpstats — FTP Log summarizer

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ftpstats [options]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So ftpstats dissects the defined ftp log and then reports all kinds of statistics, whatever you ask for. That's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨

Real talk though — this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and the reason is lowkey iconic: the original program literally does not have a manual page. So we made one. You're welcome. 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f filename — use filename instead of the default /var/log/xferlog. yes, that default is real, no cap.
  • -r — include real users. the actual humans. 👑
  • -a — include anonymous users. the mystery girlies. 🙈
  • -h — include a report on hourly traffic. hour by hour, clock by clock. ⏰
  • -d — include a report on domain traffic.
  • -t — report on total traffic by section.
  • -i — report on incoming traffic only (uploads). ⬆️
  • -o — report on outgoing traffic only (downloads). ⬇️
  • -Ddomain — report only on traffic from domain. and bestie, listen, this option leads to problems with the local domain: e.g. test.com is encountered under test and not recognized under com, so -D com will give you only stats about com excluding test.com! Use -A com for correct results. 🚨 iykyk.
  • -Aaddress — report only on traffic from addresses whose end matches address. e.g. -A test.domain.com will report on address ending with test.domain.com.
  • -ldepth — depth of path detail for sections.
  • -ssection — section to report on. e.g. -s /pub will report only on paths under /pub.
also not me typing every single one of these flags character for character because they're glued to their arguments like -Ddomain, -Aaddress, -ldepth, -ssection. that's just how she is. 💀

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs at this time. that's the energy we're manifesting. ✨

If you discover any bugs, please report at http://bugs.proftpd.org/

For help/support, try the ProFTPD mailing lists, detailed on http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html 🌈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

proftpd(8), proftpd.conf(5), xferlog(5)

👑 AUTHORS 👑

ProFTPD is written and maintained by a number of people, full credits can be found on http://www.proftpd.org/credits.html 🫶

🧚 CREDITS 🧚

This manual page was written by Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> and other Debian developers, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). sharing is caring fr fr.

Please use the most appropriate mailing list listed on http://www.proftpd.org/lists.html for ftpstats related comments. 💌

okay that's the whole page, you ate that, now go summarize some logs. 🍓

this little fairy godmother moment was brought to you by Debian GNU/Linux, dated October 30, 2002 — yes she's vintage, she's still iconic, periodt. 💖

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