Hi, okay, I got it thanks to Romans hint. But now I have the next problem: Can I exclude special users from being logged that detailed ? I've configured "real" to be command-logged, as anonymous login is not possible on our system. Second, is there a way to have these command-logs being written to a different file ? At the moment this is written to /var/log/messages, can I have it in f.ex. /var/log/ftp.command or something like this ? Third, is there a way NOT to have these annoying messages "[date] [host]: popper: connect from [anywhere]" in my /var/log/messages ? Some clients have configured their systems to check their account on our server every ten minutes, some check it every 30 minutes and so on. Due to this the messages-file is growing rapidly with this stuff. Is there a way to stop this ? Thanks in advance. --- Stephan