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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Perl Error with ftptail script Post 302312684 by Cooki3s! on Saturday 2nd of May 2009 06:38:38 PM
Old 05-02-2009
Perl Error with ftptail script
Hello everyone,

I'm a starting website admin who 2 days ago decided to make the move from shared hosting to a vps on a linux (ubuntu 8.04) platform. This opened a whole new world for me, since I never worked with the console, SSH, linux,... before. I managed to get LAMP setup after a day of wiping my disk, reinstalling my os and starting over and over again.

Now, here's the deal: The website I run is for a small gaming clan based around the online FPS urban terror. We also rent a server from gameservers.com, but they don't allow bots to be run on their server. I learned from the forums of one of these bots that I could use a script called ftptail to access the gamelog in realtime from gameservers.com using my FTP access and copy that info into a new file, which is then used by the bot on the vps to manage the gameserver.

But, when I try to run ftptail, I get this error:
Code:
Undefined subroutine &main::quit called at ./ftptail line 54.

Here's what I did to setup and execute ftptail.
As root user:
mkdir /home/ftptail
cd /home/ftptail
wget http://hamstersoup.com/ftpfail/ftptail
chmod +x ftptail
nano passwd.txt (I entered my ftp pw in this file)
./ftptail -f -s 1 -p passwd.txt [FTPUSERNAME]@[FTPIP(with and without :21)/q3/94.75.249.234:29760/q3ut4/games.log >out

And 'out' would be the folder that the bot would access. Everything works, upto the last command, which gave me the previously mentioned error.

I hope I didn't take too much of your time, and I apologize if this is a very noobish mistake.

Thanks,

Cooki3s!

PS: ftptail @ http://hamstersoup.com/ftpfail/ftptail
Bot setup instructions I tried to follow @ How-to: B3 1.1.x Remote
 

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make_combined_log.pl(1) 				      General Commands Manual					   make_combined_log.pl(1)

NAME

       make_combined_log.pl - make combined logfile from SQL database

SYNOPSIS

       make_combined_log.pl <days> <virtual host>

DESCRIPTION

       This perl script extracts the httpd access data from a MySQL database and formats it properly for parsing by 3rd-party log analysis tools.

       The  script  is	intended  to  be run out by cron. Its commandline arguments tell it how many days' worth of access records to extract, and
       which virtual_host you are interested in (because many people log several virthosts to one MySQL db.) This permits you  to  run	it  daily,
       weekly, every 9 days -- whatever you decide.

NOTE

       By  "days"  I  mean "chunks of 24 hours prior to the moment this script is run." So if you run it at 4:34 p.m. on the 12th, it will go back
       through 4:34 p.m. on the 11th.

KNOWN ISSUES

       Because GET and POST are not discriminated in the MySQL log, we'll just assume that all requests are  GETs.  This  should  have	negligible
       effect  on  any analysis software. This could be remedied IF you stored the full HTTP request in your database instead of just the URI, but
       that's going to cost you a LOT of space really quickly...

       Because this is somewhat of a quick hack it doesn't do the most robust error checking in the world. Run it by hand to  confirm  your  usage
       before putting it in crontab.

AUTHOR

       Edward Rudd <eddie@omegaware.com>

MAN PAGE CREATED BY

       Michael A. Toth <lirul.lists@gmail.com> - based on comments of script

COMMENTS

       This man page was written using xml2man (1) by the same author.

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