Hello


I am trying to do the Following;


1. copy messages from /var/log/ to /scratch this works.

2. append the date to the messages file in /scratch, not the original File so it looks like messages_date

3. zip the messages_date file, so it looks like messages_date.zip

4. upload the messages_date.zip file



Here is my Code (it uploads the File, with NO data)

$ORIGINAL_MESSAGES='messages';
$TIME_STAMP=date("mdYHis");
$NEW_MESSAGES="$ORIGINAL_MESSAGES" . "$TIME_STAMP";



chdir("/var/log");
if (file_exists($ORIGINAL_MESSAGES))
{
echo "file EXISTS, . $ORIGINAL_MESSAGES . coping to /scratch\n\n";
copy($ORIGINAL_MESSAGES, "/scratch/$NEW_MESSAGES");
chdir("/scratch");
}else{
echo ("file Does Not Exist");
}



chdir("/scratch");
if (file_exists($NEW_MESSAGES))
{
echo("\n\nfile EXISTS\n\n compressing file");
system("zip -9 -r -y -q $NEW_MESSAGES.zip . -i $NEW_MESSAGES");

}else{
echo ("file Does Not Exist");



//set up basic connection
$GPS = ftp_connect($FTP_SITE) or die("Couldn't connect to $GPS");

if (@ftp_login($GPS, $USERNAME, $PASS_WORD)) {
echo "\n\nConnected as $USERNAME \n\n";
} else {
echo "\n\nCouldn't connect as $USERNAME\n";
}


ftp_mkdir($GPS, "$REMOTE_DIR");
ftp_chdir($GPS, "$REMOTE_DIR");
chdir('/scratch');
ftp_put($GPS, "$NEW_MESSAGES.zip", "$NEW_MESSAGES.zip", FTP_BINARY);
echo "File(s) uploaded successfully $NEW_MESSAGES.zip ";


echo '</pre>';

ftp_close($GPS);

What is the overall goal you're trying to accomplish? Are you trying to centralize logs to a single server?

I want to have important log files time stamped and copied to a directory. Then have the files zipped up one by one and then sent to a FTP site for review.

So example. Copy messages file to a temp dir. Then have the file renamed to messages-date. Then compressed messages-date.zip. The. Uploaded to a FTP server.

Fred

There's easier ways of doing this using syslog/rsyslog and syslog-ng. You can then easily filter the centralized logs and have them emailed to you. It is easy to create a filtered hourly or daily digest for email.

I can't do this that way. The servers that I want to do this for is not on the same network. It needs to use FTP.

They don't need to be on the same network and can easily be secured with TLS (though FTP itself is insecure so not sure that's really the issue). If you can access the remote server gathering logs using FTP then it should be conceivable to access it using any other protocol. That being said I guess I'll let others directly answer your original question. I still think it is better to rely on proven solutions where it has been battle tested.