[NBLUG/talk] Cobalt server and parsing access logs

Todd Cary todd at aristesoftware.com
Sat May 22 08:03:53 PDT 2004


Chris -

The server is an old one: RaQ 4 ($100/mo is what my client pays for 
it).  My client just uses it to run a Web site and it is run by a couple 
of chaps that "know" Macro Media's Dream Weaver - nothing more including 
HTML!

So, here I am after auditing Mark's Intro to Unix Admin trying to figure 
out how the RaQ 4 is producing it's primitive usage report (my Fedora 
box running Webalizer is far better).

I downloaded the usage log from the RaQ into my Fedora box, so it would 
be nice to run my Weblizer against it, if that can be done.  In checking 
the man pages, it appears I can specify the input and output files, 
however what is the type of log file do I have?


127.0.0.1 - - [21/May/2004:05:00:01 -0700] "HEAD / HTTP" 200 0 "-" "-"
66.194.6.72 - - [21/May/2004:05:10:20 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 212 
"-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1-rc5; i686 Linux; 20020818)"
127.0.0.1 - - [21/May/2004:05:15:01 -0700] "HEAD / HTTP" 200 0 "-" "-"
67.69.7.202 - - [21/May/2004:05:18:59 -0700] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 18276 
"http://www.google.ca/search?q=yacht+club+&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N" 
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
67.69.7.202 - - [21/May/2004:05:18:59 -0700] "GET /sfyc.css HTTP/1.0" 
200 575 "http://www.sfyc.org/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; 
Windows NT 5.1)"
67.69.7.202 - - [21/May/2004:05:18:59 -0700] "GET 
/sfyc_Images/BurgeeColoredFine.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 3136 
"http://www.sfyc.org/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"

Should I attempt this?

Todd

Christopher Wagner wrote:

>The web interface has some of that information available.  Which Cobalt box
>is it?
>
>The URL for the web interface is usually http://www.example.com/admin or
>http://www.example.com/siteadmin or somesuch.
>
>The Cobalt boxes I worked with were MIPS processors but will happily compile
>most anything you want to run.  There isn't much on the Cobalt boxes by
>default that's useful at a command prompt.
>
>- Chris
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org]On Behalf Of
>Todd Cary
>Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 9:05 AM
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Cobalt server and parsing access logs
>
>
>My client has the use of a Cobalt server (rented from Yahoo).  They have 
>asked me to prepare an access report.  I found the log files in 
>/var/log, however I do not know how to determine what applications may 
>be on the server that can parse the files.  Any suggestions?
>
>Todd
>  
>

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