ftp logging at client side

[mummaneni]

Hi Everybody,

How can I monitor a user's ftp transactions (downloads/uploads) from the client side as at server side /var/log/xferlog maintains ftp transactions.
Here I want to observe a particular user's downloads and uploads.
It is possible, Is Linux maintains any logs for that.

Please help me.

Thanks & Regards,
Mummaneni.

[tpl]

OK, here's one way: CBE (crude but effective)
make a systemwide alias/function

alias sftp='sftp -vv 2>>/root/sftp.log'

to the user, this looks like ordinary sftp; yet it
writes lots of info including file transfer sizes

you could use awk to get a daily/weekly sum

more secure would be to get the source for sftp, and
rewrite main() a little, so it did this logging for
you.