I’ve recently discovered multitail for me. This allows the view of different logfiles simultaneously in fixed places. Previously I have used tail -f /var/log/a.log /var/log/b.log This works well but you have to be extremely careful which log it has just changed. Multitail is much better for this task. An accurate […]
To redirect traffic from one port, you can either use iptables PREROUTING or – if need be only tcp – also rinted. Rinetd has the advantage that the setup is simpler. You only have to adjust the settings in /etc/rinetd.conf. To redirect. http and https: #source port destination port 176.9.24.113 […]
To save my data i use locally and remotely besides ftp backups rsnapshot. Thus, the data of the server are backed up every 2 hours on the disc. For a conventional backup it´s not enough – is the disk or the server off, then the backups are gone. But changes […]
In the apache access.log all ip addresses are stored complete. This is neither necessary for statistcs nor it´s needed to store these data. IPv4 addresses can be quite simple anonymous, if the last part is changed. I.e. 176.9.33.188 goes to 176.9.33.0 The most statistic-tools can handle the data furthermore. As […]