Redirecting Secure FTP (SFTP) Verbose Output to a File

Troubleshooting

Problem

This document describes how to redirect SFTP, SSH, or SCP verbose output to a file.

Resolving The Problem

This document describes how to redirect SFTP, SSH, or SCP verbose output to a file, and some clients may have a need to do this. The verbose output in the file can be analyzed to debug a problem or it can be parsed by a program. The sequence of steps that can be used to redirect SFTP verbose output to a file are as follows:

o	Create the IFS directory where the verbose output file will reside: MKDIR DIR('/SFTP_Logs')
o	Create the text file that the verbose output will be redirected to: QSH CMD('/QOpenSys/usr/bin/touch /SFTP_Logs/verbose.txt')
o	Use the -vvv option to redirect the SFTP output to the verbose.txt file: sftp -vvv someuser@somehost > /SFTP_Logs/verbose.txt 2>&1

Note: The standard error (2) and standard output (1) file descriptions were used to redirect the SFTP verbose output to a file. Verbose output for the SSH and SCP utilities can also be redirected to a file. The redirection of verbose output to a file can occur interactively within the PASE or QSHELL environments. The redirection of verbose output can also be done through a batch process.

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Modified date:
18 December 2019

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