Re: Apache log file monitor

["James Barkley" <James.Barkley () noaa gov>]

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On linux use webalizer for stats, logwatch for alerts, and maybe
create your own perl or shell script to look for and report specific
things (this is not as hard or time-consuming as you might think).
You can have these mailed to you via cron, but if you choose to do
that I highly reccomend you encrypt the payload via gpg.  Create a new
key and make sure the secret key has been imported as fully trusted on
both sending machine and receiving machine.  Here is a sample line to
place in your crontab.

55 23 * * * /usr/local/bin/logcheck -d today | /usr/bin/gpg -e -a
- --batch -r jane.doe () website com | /bin/mail -s 'webserver daily'
jane.doe () website com

- -Jim

p.s.  Create your key as 2048-bit


Chris Davis wrote:

|I occasionally see you guys talk about what appeared in your Apache
|logs the night before.  What utilities do you guys use to monitor your
|log files?
|
|Currently I run awstats to record the number of visitors and which
|pages were hit more frequently, but it doesn't log the actual URL that
|the "visitor" attempted to reach.
|
|Thanks for any help you can provide.
|
|Chris Davis
|davisfactor () gmail com


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