A log file is usually a text file which is generated by a software process to record some specific details (events) about the workings of this process. A log file can be categorized into several types: Access log which records information related to the usage of service provided by this process. ...
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Maintaining SQL Log Files
I get an email today stating that we have a log file that's grown to 278GB, and asking if anyone is maintaining it. I already know the answer to that is no because we don't have a dba (other than ...
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Is blocking unresolved IP addresses a good idea?
I have a Website where :
We currently have a lot of bots trying to grab our content (it's a
business directory) from China, Ukraine, etc...
5% of IP addresses are "unresolved", according to ...
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manually rotating logfile with rsyslogd
I want to force logfile rotation using logrotate -f /var/log/syslog, but it's only return tones of:
error: syslog:1 unknown option 'May' -- ignoring line
error: syslog:1 unexpected text
I know that ...
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Free log analyser for hmailserver [closed]
I want free log analyser that work with hmailserver log. I want extract invalid email form log.
if you know free tools, please offer.
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Include domain in IIS log file
I have a webapp multidomain, and i like store the domain in IIS logs, is it possible?
Thx in advance,
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How to Enable IPtables TRACE Target on Debian Squeeze (6)
I am trying to use the TRACE target of IPtables but I can't seem to get any trace information logged. I want to use what is described here:
Debugger for Iptables.
From the iptables man for TRACE:
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Sonicwall Email Security Audit Logs
I have a Sonicwall Email Security appliance from which I would like to extract the audit logs on a daily basis. Currently, I can only see how to get them manually by going to the web interface.
Is ...
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kern.log bandwidth and syslog filling up with bandwidth lines
I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and my kern.log, bandwidth, and syslog files are filling(And completely consuming my hard drive) with this stuff
Apr 18 20:20:23 main kernel: [1886527.503932] BANDWIDTH_OUT:IN= ...
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Grep to find lines starting at pattern A until pattern B is matched
I have a log that contains bits like this:
[2012-04-16 15:16:43,827: DEBUG/PoolWorker-2] {'feed': {}, 'bozo': 1, 'bozo_exception': URLError(error(110, 'Connection timed out'),), 'entries': []}
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logfile deleted on Oracle database how to re-create it?
For my database assignment we were looking into 'database corruption' and I was asked to delete the second redo log file which I have done with the command: rm log02a.rdo this was in the ...
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Tool to extract all requests being served at a point in time?
We are using Apache using the following log file format:
%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\" %D
Now we want to check which requests were being served by Apache at a ...
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Sendmail: what does nrcpts=0 mean?
Im attempting to parse some sendmail logs. Im running into lots of apparent emails that have no recipients - or so it would appear.
Mar 18 19:12:35 castor sendmail[543]: q2J2CYIv000543: ...
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how to view log files for printing made by different users on LAN
I have a windows 2003 server and have attached a printer to this server.
This printer is installed on the server and shared to all computers on the local area network.
I want to check to see which ...
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Is this a normal web crawler or something else?
I am running a little apache2 webserver for a department at my university, and I noticed the access logs are filled with messages like the following:
"GET ...
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Insert MIME type of an URL into Apache's access_log
I would like to enhance my logfile with an additional field containing the mime type.
E.G.
127.0.0.1 - - [01/Mar/2012:20:49:36 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 255 [...] "text/html"
127.0.0.1 - - ...
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ntop crashes at random times, how can I trace the cause?
I've recently installed ntop v3.3 on a Debian/Lenny server, which runs as a daemon with the web interface enabled.
However, it randomly crashes and logs don't report anything... I've tried the ...
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Weird errors in system.log while trying to run .kext
UPDATE: I was looking in the wrong log file. The kernel log is /var/log/kernel.log. D'oh
First, I don't know if this is the correct place to put this question. Would Stackoverflow or Apple be better?
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Linux server out of space
I have been asked this question in two consecutive interviews, but after some research and checking with various systems administrators I haven't received a good answer. I am wondering if somebody can ...
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Get sessions' remote IP from Teamviewer log file
I'd like to know who has logged in to my machine and when.
I have two TeamViewer log files: Connections_incoming.txt and TeamViewer7_Logfile.log.
The first one is quite plain and lists, as its ...
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Apache2 dynamic custom filename for log files
I would like to apply a date based custom filename for apache2 log files, which I want to use for clickheat.
In the example it writes:
CustomLog "clickheat.%Y-%m-%d-%H" "%r" env=clickheat
But for ...
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Apache - where do I get older access logs? Are they even there?
As the question says, I can find access logs upto 1 month old in the /var/logs/httpd folder. Where do I get older access logs from?
Are they even maintained/saved anywhere or deleted?
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Modify swatch conf files to match multiple lines below a match
We use swatch for reading PHP logs and email them to us. Currently it emails one single line of the error, but fails to match the next few lines of stack trace.
For example: for log file like this:
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Event ID 13562 NTFRS warning is empty
I am checking the FRS logs on one of our servers and find a Warning log, every day, with the following:
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: NtFrs
Event Category: None
Event ID: 13562
Date: ...
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PHPMyAdmin is being attacked
I am running a Debian server with PHP5, Apache 2.2.16 and PHPMyAdmin (I don't know how to check the version number), Logcheck and some other programs.
Today Logcheck begin to attach multiple lines ...
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TCPView output to log files?
Can TCPView keep log files of daily port connections? I'd like to read log files every other week to check for any network hacking attempts. If TCPView cannot do this, is there any other free utility ...
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understand apache error log (maybe an attack?)
anyome can help to understand the apache error log?
my website has benn recently attacked (iframe at bottom page).
my website in ona dedicated server with centos ad directadmin
than you all.
[Tue ...
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get text between keywords in log file
If I have a log file and want to dump only the text between 1234 and 9876 in to another file, how can i do this easily?
If I have a text file like this:
idsfsvcvs sdf sdf e e sd vs d s g sg s vc ...
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Why has my auth.log file emptied - is this normal?
Just took a look at my server auth.log file for the first time in a few days, and noticed that it has no entries before 6:47 this morning.
This is really odd because I dumped that logfile to my ...
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Live statistics from a log file
I've got nginx running as a load balancer in front of several web servers. I'd like to be able to see live statistics with response time (maybe a histogram of the last 10 seconds?)
I think Varnish ...
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Delete log files on IIS hosted website after certain days
I want to delete log files created by my Silverlight application on IIS in a way that the server should check log files older than "n" number of days and delete them automatically.
Is there any ...
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Fault localization using passive monitoring [closed]
How does location of fault is known in networks using passive monitoring?
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How can I search IIS logs of several servers at the same time?
I need to search the logs of all the servers in the array for a particular string. Specifically, I need to determine if a given user is using OWA, EWS, or something else with our CAS servers.
Is ...
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How should I deal with logs before they get to big?
I found out my disk was full today, and I freed up 10% just from deleting mostly logs from multiple websites. I, personally, like to keep logs as an archive, because I may need to look back on them ...
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Mongo has a huge log and sometimes hangs the box
My mongodb_mp.log is growing very quickly
A tail -f of the file scrolls very quickly
Do I need to look into connection pooling?
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How to delete all debian squeeze logs?
What is the easiest way to clear all the /var/log/ logs so that it just looks like a fresh system?
I know that the fresh system also have logs, but I don't acctualy need the old ones....
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Anyone know of a self-describing ascii log format?
I was thinking of something like:
DDPPPMFF 2011-12-04 14:44 myproc 1234 procuser INFO "this line" "contains some data"
PFDF proc2 started 1326808384 "That is a silly place to put a time stamp"
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Apache log processing on remote central log server
We have 50 RHEL Apache web-servers. We want all the Apache logs to be processed on a dedicated server meant for this purpose as we don't the dependencies of log processing application installed on our ...
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How can I compress large log files on Windows 2008 Server?
Some of our log files are > 4GB, and the build-in windows zip will not compress them.
I need to get them off the box, and really don't want to download them uncompressed. I can't install any ...
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Best Way to Keep Up on Linux Log Files
I run multiple Linux (Ubuntu) web servers and am looking for a convenient way to keep tabs on important log files. I'd like to monitor pertinent LAMP logs as well as server accesses/logins.
Are there ...
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Calculate rate from log file timestamps
From postfix's logfile I can grep all the lines that indicate the delivery of one message:
Jan 3 15:28:21 mail postfix/pipe[1040]: [...] status=sent
Jan 3 15:28:21 mail postfix/pipe[1157]: [...] ...
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Windows Log Viewer (alternative to evntvwr.msc)
I'm wondering if anyone knows of a log viewer that can read .evtx logs and has error hightlighting.
Basically I want something thats going to make reading logfiles easier and I can't seem to find one ...
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Ubuntu 11.04 server crash report
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 server addition for my application. During some testing my server has just crashed. After that I am restart the server. My problem is how can i find the reason of crashing? I ...
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Where to see logs of a program that crashes on Ubuntu Server?
I have been running a service (a python script using twistd library) as a non-root user that stays in the background. I've been noticing that it crashes at random times and I want to understand why. ...
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A lot of errors 400 access.log with Nginx and loadbalancer
Hy,
I have juste install nginx for my website, and everything is working well and very fast :)
But i have this kind of error in my access log :
IP - - [30/Dec/2011:11:06:00 +0000] - "-" 400 0 "-" ...
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awstats log issue
I was following a similar issue by another user. I was attempting to follow through the example. But it failed for a some reason
Awstats logformat typo?
Using Nginx I'm using the following:
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How to monitor file download on IIS?
We are hosting .exe files on our IIS for our users to download. Is there a direct way to know how many request came for file download and from them how many got completed (successful download ) ? Do I ...
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MySQL server not starting up
I have a server running CentOS 5.5 x86_64, and have recently installed MySQL Server via YUM, but when starting the server I get:
[root@server etc]# service mysqld start
Warning: World-writable ...
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Anyone know of a tool to detect and report on repeating patterns in a log file?
I need to monitor some large noisy log files (500m/day) from a Java application (log4j). Right now I manually look at the files, grep for "ERROR" and so on. However it should be possible for a tool to ...
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Mail logs files as attachments with sendmail
I'm using logrotate to rotate my log files.
I've set it up to create new logfiles every week.
However I would like it to first mail me the logfiles as attachments.
The /var/log/httpd file currently ...
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tool to analyse/grep log files
Is there any web based GUIs to analyse or in realtime filter/grep log files from apache? log files that are access logs or error logs or postfix logs etc.
Edit: I don't mean traffic analysis. Much ...
