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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.
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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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How to determine server name in Apache cent-OS?
the server names/identifiers in this question are fictional
The maillog file is getting 100,000 entries per day, despite only a few hundred actual e-mails being sent, or other type of activity daily ...
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Detect missing “pongs” in “ping / pong” log entries
An app sends a "ping" to another host, and that host replies with a "pong". Those requests/replies are logged to a file, but on separate lines, so there might be other messages between them.
I need ...
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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 ...
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How can I count instances of a regex match in a log file using PowerShell?
I have a very large log file in which I need to count the occurrences of all the variations of a particular string; that is:
There are a large number of file IDs that appear in the format AA000####. ...
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app for apache site logs
I have to look over some apache logs and error files. They are really big, and I'll like to use some apps which can make analysing more easy on the first stage.
TY
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serving logs via HTTP
Here is what i am trying to achieve: I have a few Linux servers that have my web App deployed on. Currently my development team access the web app, run their test cases and then SSH into my Linux ...
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Why is my access.log file not accessible?
I have an apache installation on my dev machine. The httpd.conf is all set up right. By the config file I should be getting an access.log file in my logs directory, but it doesn't seem to exist in ...
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Unable to administer WSS 3.0 using SQL Studio Express
I have a WSS 3.0 running on Server 2008 R1. The log files have grown to almost 15GB and need to be compressed/purged as we are running out of space on the hard drive. I have connected to the ...
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What the heck is a OPTIONS method in a IIS 7.5 web Log?
I know what a GET and a POST are, but it's almost impossible to Google for the word OPTIONS. Here's what I see (i deleted all the stuff at the end) of each:
11/23/11 0:02:13 10.100.0.14 ...
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How to show users the reason for a message being bounced or rejected by Postfix?
A user would like to be able to view a web page showing any emails that a Postfix server has either been unable to send, or unable to receive.
For example if the user was supposed to receive an email ...
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Most functional log analysis tools? [closed]
I am curious as to what others find to be the most useful log analysis tools for *nix. Presently I am simply tailing output and grepping through things, however I'd like to use something that would ...
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nginx: rewrite URL but have original URL stored in access.log as 200
I'm setting up a link tracking system, which (temporarily) involves adding /link/id/ in front of URL (like http://server/data/id/publication/id/).
rewrite data/id/(.*) http://server/$1;
The request ...
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Newsyslog wildcards - rotate all logs in a directory
I am running FreeBSD 8.1. I am trying to make newsyslog rotate logs defined by a dynamic path:
# logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
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How to grep httpd error_log within a time range?
How can I grep only lines from a huge (120GB) httpd error_log based on a time range, say:
from 2011-11-15 11:30 pm
to 2011-11-16 01:30 am
Thanks!
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how can i use apache log files to recreate usage scenario
Recently i installed a website that had too many requests and it was too slow. Many improvements have been made to the web site code and we've also bought a new server.
I want to test the new server ...
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Defending against botnet - how to analyze apache logs?
About 24 hours ago a DDOS attack started against my site. The apache logs look like this:
190.56.92.50 - - [10/Nov/2011:19:09:16 +0200] "GET /browse.php HTTP/1.0" 403 1207 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; ...
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Exchange 2010, user access logs?
Where can I locate log data for exchange 2010 that will show me data such as users accessing the db, or failed logon attempts.
Thanks!
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Can postgres internal log rotation mechanism delete log files older than a certain time?
I am using posgtres' internal log rotation mechanism. I would like log files older than 30 days to be deleted. How do I get postgres to do this? If postgres does not support it, can I set logrotate to ...
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Possible to forward logs for microsoft products
This may be a duplicate, as i'm fishing for information, as I'm not that au fait with logging on windows. I know on Unix you can ship syslogs via the relay and RFC 5424. I also know you forward ...
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init script that logs output of the script
How can this be done? I know it's pretty simple and includes appending something like & or &> to the actual command that starts the init script.
But, what is the best approach and how can ...
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Ubuntu power management logfiles? Forensics (maybe?)?
I'm in the unfortunate position where I need to determine what happened to a remote server of ours. I only have SSH access to it and it's a netbook running ubuntu 10.04 32 bit. It dropped offline for ...
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SSH server breakin attempt?
I am running a Gentoo Linux server, and use Fail2Ban to block the script kiddies and their relentless banging on my SSH port. (Yes I know I can move to a different port number, but that is work, and ...
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AWStats out result in a single html file?
AWStats (awstats_buildstaticpages.pl) generates many htmls, e.g.
awstats.mysite.alldomains.html
awstats.mysite.allhosts.html
awstats.mysite.allrobots.html
awstats.mysite.browserdetail.html
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Is there a performance advantage to isolating database logs and data on different volumes (same RAID array) across a SAN?
On my old server, I separated them on to different RAID arrays to improve performance. Using a SAN is new to me, so I'm not sure of the optimal configuration.
SAN: 48 drives. 10K 600GB SAS. RAID 50. ...
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Split large apache log file into the past day
I have a 3GB log file, I need to extract the past 48 hours without downloading the entire 3GB file. How can I split the file up into the past 48 hours. So I can only download that single file?
I have ...
