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How to configure tomcat to rollover catalina.out log files
I'm trying to configure my tomcat to rollover log files once a size limit is reached. I'm running tomcat as a windows service and am redirecting all my stdout to catalina.log. This is how I configured ...
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How do i remove ip addresses from log files
I have an apache / nginx whatever webserver which logs client ip addresses to the access logs. Now these log files are rotated via logrotate.
I want to keep the IP addresses for some days, then - ...
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apache2 access log , thousands of logs from the IP of the same server
I was Trying to read the apache access log for my vps 1.1.1.173 server and i have found something
wired , it has almost 98% of the requests from same IP address of the vps here is an example of ...
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Is there an IIS log viewer integrated into IIS Manager?
There are quite a few external IIS log analyzers but since IIS 7 has quite a nice administrative UI and new modules can be created for it, is there a module that would display / analyze log files ...
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How can I prevent cron from filling up my root partition?
I'm using cron tasks every 3 mins, the result is logged in my cron.log. Also after executing (wget) certain php file, it's name (with 0 bytes filesize) is copied to root, spaming it - see the figure
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Exchange reporting about any delivery failure
We have a new exchange server in our organization, and sometimes users report an email that failed to deliver. Typically, I believe that it is related to size or content restrictions from either the ...
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Is there a way to log failed file operations in a linux box?
I wonder if there is a log facility in linux that can be enabled to record failed file operations such as a failure in creating a directory due to permissions or in opening a file for writing so that ...
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Apache 2.2 logging Redirects
How do I get Apache to log particular Redirects in a separate log file?
I have a web site which includes links to an external site. I have been asked to keep track of how often users use these links. ...
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Understanding the sUserTime field of an IIS logfile
My IIS7x server is logging all fields to W3C format. I'm using LogParser and sending each row out to SQL for further analysis. After a few months worth of logging, each row finds a null value in ...
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how to write a script that only acts on new log entries
I feel like this should be a simple thing but I am having a hard time figuring it out.
I am trying to write a script that will monitor one of the apache log files and take some specific action. But ...
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snoopy rsyslog output file rule
I'm just setting up snoopy logger on my personal machine to archive commands I've run.
I'm attempting to setup an rsyslog rule to move its messages from /var/log/auth.log to /var/log/snoopy.log
I've ...
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Scheduled Task Logging for local system account
A few weeks ago I implemented a scheduled task that executes every 20 minutes on every workstation and server in the organization. This task runs under the local system account.
Since that date I ...
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Disable logging Centos 6 [closed]
How can i disable all logging on a server running Centos?
I do not know what logs are kept by default, but as i use the server as a vpn exit point, i for sure don't want any logs pertaining to who ...
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Equivalent of logrotate on OSX
Is logrotate hiding somewhere on OSX, or is there an equivalent? It's not in /usr/sbin.
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What log contains server crashes?
I'm having some problem with my Debian 2.6.38-3 server which *crashes once every 3 month, but I can't figure out why.
According to Pingdom the site died around 4 AM, but none of the logs I've looked ...
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Disk writes every 15 minutes?
Just trying to get to the bottom of this. I run a Web app on a LAMP stack on Amazon EC2.
Typically the server is writing about 2.5MB/min to the hard drives. It looks like the apache log file and ...
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What is the Apache BytesLog directive useful for?
What does it do? Is it part of a module or part of the core Apache server?
I have a BytesLog setup for a bunch of virtualhosts and they don't seem to do much. All I see are a list of numbers when I ...
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Apache virtualhost logs; better to have a single log or multiple logs?
Currently we have 200+ virtualhosts setup and they have separate log files. I'm wondering what the advantages/disadvantages are of having a single log file and what the advantages/disadvantages of our ...
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Make Tomcat 7.0 flush logs to disk?
How do I get Apache Tomcat 7.0, running as a service on Windows Server 2008, to flush its logs to disk without restarting the service daemon?
I did find delay on tomcat writing to logs in windows ...
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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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Does anyone have a config to process AWS CloudFront/S3 logs with AWStats (or similar sw)?
I don't want to give an external company like s3stat access to my logs. I know that AWS logs S3 and Cloud Front in a format readable by AWStats. Has anyone used AWSats to analyze them?
S3stat used ...
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log forwarding performance and OS bottleneck
How many logs/second can usually be handled by syslog servers? By syslog servers, I am referring to rsyslog, syslog-ng, splunk etc. The intent of the question is to find out at what logs/second rate ...
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Centralising Logfiles - Sending via TCP, versus SAN replication?
We have several (20+) application servers spread across multiple data-centres. We need to centralise the logfiles and monitor them from a single box.
Requirements:
Large logfiles, in the order of ...
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httpd access log, ip logged is reversed proxy how to find actual proxy
Check access log and found out that the IP that was logged from users came from the reversed proxy server.
The setup is like this
www.abc.com -> reversed proxy to my server 123.123.123.123
Is ...
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what flume backend to use? [closed]
We are investigating implementing flume on our 500+ servers and I would love to hear some war stories and opinions on which backend to store in. Seems like hadoop is the defacto for this, why? Several ...
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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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Use Nginx callback after x-accel-redirect response (or use logging to socket)
my workflow is following:
accept request
with ruby script do some stuff
send x-accel-redirect header and return
... client receives data ...
client disconnected
<- here I would like to run some ...
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Logging websites with iptables
I currently have a Sokeris net4501 running Voyage Linux acting as a firewall using iptables. Is it possible to use iptables to log all websites that are visited? If not, is there any other software ...
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remove CRON:Pam_unix entries from rsyslog
PAM keeps filling up my syslog with this everytime CRON switches users.
CRON[18183]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
CRON[18183]: pam_unix(cron:session): session ...
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Wireshark filter to only capture Incoming Packets?
I am trying to setup a Filter (so my log files aren't massive) that will capture only incoming traffic. I have looked on http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureFilters but so far have been unable to find a ...
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Determine when someone last logged in to a server from a key
I'm trying to track the last time a user logged into a Linux server with a certain key. So user secure has 5 keys in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys, how can I track when each key was used and what IP was used ...
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Missing Application Logs in Event Viewer, Windows 2008
We seem to be missing application logs in event viewer. The log just shows 0 messages. I came across some information attributing this issue to corrupted log files, I cleared the log but the issue is ...
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Disable auditing of logon type 3 events
I have an older 2003 server that hosts an in house application running on IIS with windows authentication. Is there a ready way to disable auditing only for the logon type 3 (network logon)?
This ...
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Log monitoring and alert utility
Actually we use ManageEngine's Application Manager to monitor some client servers that host Oracle Databases and some JBoss applications. Unfortunately App Manager doesn't work so fast as i wish so i ...
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How to find out what command was done with my FTP log?
My index.php files has suddenly been deleted today. I downloaded the FTP log file from the server. I see that an unknown user has accessed my FTP server today. I have the following line in my FTP log, ...
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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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Disable exim4 logging
Currently exim4 logs to /var/log/exim4/mainlog but I would like to stop this.
I'v checked a few man pages but none show how to do this.
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sshd not writing any kind of log Debian 6
I just installed Debian 6 on my server and noticed that sshd isn't writing any log to /var/log. I understand this is a huge security issue as I won't be able to know who logged in to my server. Is ...
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How to check http errors with Windows 2008 Server?
This is the best I can describe my problem...
I am running a search engine scraper essentially on Windows 2008 Server. Constantly accessing millions of random domain names and following their links ...
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Logging mysql queries under MAMP Pro (MAC)
I am using MAMP Pro 2.0.5 (latest)
and copied the my-medium.cnf file and placed it into /mamp/conf/ and renamed it to my.cnf
under the [mysqld] i placed
log = ...
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Anonymizing IPs in apache access/error logs
I'd like to give my server's visitors more anonymity and do not want to store their IP address in the access and error logs anymore.
This is possible in several ways, e.g. by following ...
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using syslog-ng and patterndb, how do I specify an “empty” pattern?
When I receive kernel traces in my logs, the last line is empty. I'd like to filter/ignore these empty kernel messages using syslog-ng and patterndb. Here is the pattern I have so far that is not ...
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pptpd on Debian doesn't write any logs
I'm trying to set up PPTP server with Debian Squeeze.
The problem is nothing is being written in the logs (neither in messages nor in debug nor in daemon.log) though debug and dump options are set. ...
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Giving other users write access to apache logs can result in root exploit - How does this work?
On http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/logs.html
Anyone who can write to the directory where Apache is writing a log file can almost certainly gain access to the uid that the server is started as, ...
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Logging the bytes going to IIS
I have a web service running on IIS that is rejecting data being send from ATG. It fails before it gets to my web service code, and the error message is badly formed XML.
I want to get logging ...
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Suspicious password login in sshd log
I have a linux server running under a windows virtualbox. I use ssh with publickey to login, and use lftp's sftp feature for file transfer, which also use publickey.
Today when I check the log file, ...
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How to find error messages from Linux init.d/rc.d scripts?
In Linux, I've written some scripts to be executed during boot and played around with the various ways of installing them. For larger scripts I'll put in /etc/init.d and link the appropriate ...
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What are some ways to store Tomcat 6 stdout and stderr logs to external server?
Due to compliance issues, there is a need to store all tomcat logs for at least 6 months on a central server.
Is there a way to send the logs to rsyslog server or any other mechanism that will ...
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How can I configure logs as data source from remote unix server in splunk?
How can I configure splunk with log files residing on remote unix servers?
Normally I log into putty to a linux server, from there I ssh into another company server and I navigate through directories ...
