[Discuss] sshd logging question

[Jerry Feldman]

On 11/16/2011 09:49 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:29 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Sorry if this is an RTFM question.
>> Every night our NY office connects in to our backup server. I have a
>> script that checks the status of the most recent backup as well as those
>> connects, but I would like to be able to track the time the NY office
>> disconnects. The NY office is using rsync to connect through and ssh
>> tunnel. A while back there was a case where they were not actually
>> transferring any data. Certainly the NY office could also check the
>> times on their end.
> The login/logout times are in the file /var/log/auth.log on my Ubuntu
> system. 
They are in /var/log/secure on my system (fedora 15). I don't have an
auth.log. Unfortunately the WD MyBook has neither and the log entries
are in messages, and do not include the disconnect.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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